# Automatic Installation

For installing on multiple computers it's possible to do fully automatic installations. &debian; packages intended for this include `fai-quickstart`, which can use an install server (have a look at the FAI home page for detailed information) and the &debian; Installer itself.

The FAI project also provides a web service for creating customized unattended installation ISO images with only a few clicks. You can choose the desktop environment, the language, the release, set the password and add your own list of additional packages. After a few minutes your can download and boot the image, that will do the fully automatic installation without any interaction needed. Some more advanced settings are available for Linux experts.

## Automatic Installation Using the &debian; Installer

The &debian; Installer supports automating installs via preconfiguration files. A preconfiguration file can be loaded from the network or from removable media, and used to fill in answers to questions asked during the installation process.

Full documentation on preseeding including a working example that you can edit is in appendix-preseed.