title: Installing hadoop on windows xp
body: <p>i am having problems while trying to install hadoop on windows32 bit 
  i have followed the yahoo ttorial on installing hadoop
  <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/hadoop/tutorial/" rel="nofollow">http://developer.yahoo.com/hadoop/tutorial/</a>
  and have successfully downloaded the VMplayer and Hadoop virtual machine image,
  but i am not able to configure the eclipse plug-in</p>
  
  <p>using the jar i am able to write the basic map-reduce program in eclipse,Now after writing howw to execute them on hadoop as with hadoop vMimage i can not find the bin directory</p>