diff --git a/examples/configurations/README.md b/examples/configurations/README.md
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+## Advanced configuration
+
+This section contains examples on how to install models manually with config files.
+
+### Prerequisites
+
+First clone LocalAI:
+
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI
+
+cd LocalAI
+```
+
+Setup the model you prefer from the examples below and then start LocalAI:
+
+```bash
+docker compose up -d --pull always
+```
+
+If LocalAI is already started, you can restart it with 
+
+```bash
+docker compose restart
+```
+
+See also the getting started: https://localai.io/basics/getting_started/
+
+### Mistral
+
+To setup mistral copy the files inside `mistral` in the `models` folder:
+
+```bash
+cp -r examples/configurations/mistral/* models/
+```
+
+Now download the model:
+
+```bash
+wget https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Mistral-7B-OpenOrca-GGUF/resolve/main/mistral-7b-openorca.Q6_K.gguf -O models/mistral-7b-openorca.Q6_K.gguf
+```
+
diff --git a/examples/configurations/mistral/chatml-block.tmpl b/examples/configurations/mistral/chatml-block.tmpl
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+{{.Input}}
+<|im_start|>assistant
+
diff --git a/examples/configurations/mistral/chatml.tmpl b/examples/configurations/mistral/chatml.tmpl
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+<|im_start|>{{if eq .RoleName "assistant"}}assistant{{else if eq .RoleName "system"}}system{{else if eq .RoleName "user"}}user{{end}}
+{{if .Content}}{{.Content}}{{end}}
+<|im_end|>
diff --git a/examples/configurations/mistral/completion.tmpl b/examples/configurations/mistral/completion.tmpl
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+{{.Input}}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/examples/configurations/mistral/mistral.yaml b/examples/configurations/mistral/mistral.yaml
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+name: mistral
+mmap: true
+parameters:
+  model: mistral-7b-openorca.Q6_K.gguf
+  temperature: 0.2
+  top_k: 40
+  top_p: 0.95
+template:
+  chat_message: chatml
+  chat: chatml-block
+  completion: completion
+context_size: 4096
+f16: true
+stopwords:
+- <|im_end|>
+threads: 4