I was able to get this running successfully. A few points that may help other people out:
I didn't have a masters file in the /usr/local/hadoop/etc/hadoop folder. Creating the file and adding the master line worked just fine.
mapred-site.xml needs to be copied from mapred-site.xml.template before making any edits
There's a broken line on the config text for yarn-site.xml, if you copy paste and don't join the line you'll get an error starting the namenode services:
Hi all -
I was able to get this running successfully. A few points that may help other people out:
Should be: