Artem, for installation in a typical os, can we have windows 7 laptop with 4GB RAM? Also, did you download the distribution from Apache project instead of hortonworks? ... View more

I'm trying to use sandbox which is prebuilt bundled vesion of hortonworks flavour of apache hadoop.I'm not sure if I can install ambari as a separate component first and then install rest. Not sure if you are talking about sandbox ... View more

Deepesh, In HDFS environment is the hdfs user superuser. As in a typical UNIX env root is the superuser and without root user password we can't perform any of the stuff. ... View more

Hi Neeraj..If you carefully look at my question, I wanted to practice the tutorials on top of hadoop sandbox. For installing and bringing up sandbox I followed one of your tutorial that says we can install sandbox in azure and try it free for 1 month. There is a contradiction among tutorial and microsoft policy. As per tutorial A4 virtual machine needs to be used. As per microsoft policy A4 standard is not on free basis instead it is on paid basis. I'm asking is there any other way to start learning hadoop by installing sandbox for free ... View more

Good insight chakra ... View more