Installing Hadoop on windows 7 with 32 bit processor?

Question

I have a 32 bit machine with windows 7, I need to install hadoop and try it out, I checked Cloudera distribution and it is for linux, VMWare images with 64 bit processor. H

Answer 1

Hadoop version 2.2 onwards includes native support for Windows.

Do not attempt to run the installation from within Cygwin. Cygwin is neither required nor supported.

Figure out more information at http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hadoop2OnWindows