# Start

> Install Farrow, boot one or four nodes, operate the deployment, and resolve common failures.

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LLMS index: [llms.txt](/llms.txt)

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Use these pages in order:

1. [Installation](installation/) — build the current source and check the host.
2. [Tutorial](tutorial/) — boot one node, expand to four, and use Pigsty.
3. [Operations](operations/) — start, stop, change, inspect, and destroy nodes.
4. [Troubleshooting](troubleshooting/) — short symptom-to-fix runbooks.

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Section pages:

- [Installation](/docs/start/installation/): Build Farrow, verify native acceleration, and understand the one-time host setup.
- [Tutorial](/docs/start/tutorial/): Boot a one-node lab, verify it, expand it to four nodes without restarting the first, and hand the same inventory to Pigsty.
- [Operations](/docs/start/operations/): The normal lifecycle for the one deployment: inspect, access, scale, change, stop, and destroy.
- [Troubleshooting](/docs/start/troubleshooting/): Short, safe runbooks for setup, networking, images, drift, interrupted state, and SSH.