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@@ -41,12 +41,14 @@ You will need the following:
   1GB RAM, one slow CPU and maybe 10GB storage for a
   few thousand active chatmail addresses, and 
 
-- password-less ssh root login to the domain 
+- a terminal window with password-less ssh root login to the domain;
+  you must have set up ssh authentication and need to use an ed25519 key, 
+  due to an [upstream bug in paramiko](https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko/issues/2191);
+  you also need to add your private key to the local ssh-agent, 
+  because you can't type in your password during deployment.
 
 
-## Deploying a chatmail server 
-
-To deploy chatmail on a server, you must have set up ssh authentication and need to use an ed25519 key, due to an [upstream bug in paramiko](https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko/issues/2191). You also need to add your private key to the local ssh-agent, because you can't type in your password during deployment.
+## Getting started 
 
 We use `chat.example.org` as the chatmail domain in the following steps. 
 Please substitute it with your own domain.