Installing Microsoft HDInsight developer preview (release date March 25, 2013)

Pre-requisites

• You should be running 64 bit version of windows.
  • In my case it was 64 bit Windows 8.
  • If you are running on Windows 7 ensure that it is patched with SP1
• Remove the older version if you have it installed. Go to “Add or remove programs” and uninstall the following two
  • Microsoft HDInsight Developer preview
  • Hortonworks data platform

Steps – Online

1. Install Web Platform Installer (Web PI)
2. Run Web PI and search for hdinsight 
   
3. Install hdinsight
   

Alternative steps – Offline

If you are unlucky and are in someplace that has download restrictions, yes like my organization, yeah pretty lame I know; You need to –

1. Download the following two files
   • http://download.microsoft.com/download/C/6/6/C669A230-F1B9-4FE8-B787-B531B43C8A1C/MSSingleNodeInstaller.msi (29.1 MB)
   • http://public-repo-1.hortonworks.com/release-ms5/hdp-1.0.1-75.ms5.winpkg.msi (516.02 MB) OR
     https://public-repo-1.hortonworks.com/release-ms5/hdp-1.0.1-75.ms5.winpkg.msi (516.02 MB)
2. Open cmd prompt in admin mode. (Thanks to my friend Pranay for asking me to call out this step)
3. Install the msi files by using the following commands
   • msiexec /i hdp-1.0.1-75.ms5.winpkg.msi WEBPI=1
     It takes a while to install. Do not get moved by, be happy or get jolted by seeing microsofts “5 seconds remaining” message and clap like chameleons. Keep a watch on the following log file C:\HadoopInstallFiles\HadoopSetupTools\hdp-1.0.1.winpkg.install.log
     As the installation completes the log file at the end will look like

     HDP: Done creating shortcuts
     HDP: INSTALLATION COMPLETE 
     WINPKG: rd /s /q C:\HadoopInstallFiles\HadoopPackages\hdp-1.0.1-winpkg
     WINPKG: Finished processing C:\HadoopInstallFiles\HadoopSetupTools\\..\HadoopPackages\hdp-1.0.1-winpkg.zip
     

   • msiexec /i MSSingleNodeInstaller.msi WEBPI=1

I hope I helped you today!