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  <HOSTNAME>.<yourdomain>.<yourtld>
 
  <HOSTNAME>.<yourdomain>.<yourtld>
 
{{Tip box|Make sure you set the <HOSTNAME> to something less than 15 characters.}}
 
{{Tip box|Make sure you set the <HOSTNAME> to something less than 15 characters.}}
*When the install has finished you need to remove the media and reboot. A gui startup process then completes the setup and installation. During this process you will be asked for a username and password to set up the first user, and also the date/time configuration.
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*When the install has finished you need to remove the media and reboot. A gui Welcome startup process then completes the setup and installation. During this process you will be asked for a username and password to set up the first user, and also the date/time configuration.
{{Tip box| When prompted for a user name to log in with, give a non-SME user such as 'administrator', as this first user effectively becomes a local user for Gnome login. Root is not allowed to login at the Gnome GDM prompt. You can login as this user, open an 'Applications - System - Terminal' cli and 'su' to root to carry out most of the authentication setup.
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{{Tip box| When prompted for a user name to log in with, give a non-SME user such as 'administrator', as this first user effectively becomes a local user for Gnome login. Root is not allowed to login at the Gnome GDM prompt. You can login as this user, open an 'Applications - System - Terminal' cli and 'su' to root to carry out most of the authentication setup later.
    
You can also add the SME server ip to the list of NTP servers}}
 
You can also add the SME server ip to the list of NTP servers}}
{{Warning box| On the User setup screen do not select the 'Use Network Login'. This will not work yet, missing packages etc, and will just complicate the setup below}}
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{{Warning box| On the Create User setup screen do not select the 'Use Network Login' button. This will not work yet due to missing packages etc, and will just complicate the setup below}}
 
*Complete install, login and apply all updates.  
 
*Complete install, login and apply all updates.  
 
{{Note box| There may be a lot of updates so apply the security fixes as a minimum.
 
{{Note box| There may be a lot of updates so apply the security fixes as a minimum.

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