diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml
index 4b5f1ab648..5a0012f062 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml
@@ -5623,7 +5623,8 @@ Please press any key to reboot.</screen>
 	  <secondary>from MS-DOS</secondary>
 	</indexterm>
 	<para>To prepare for an installation from an MS-DOS partition,
-	  copy the files from the distribution into a directory on that
+	  copy the files from the distribution into a directory
+          called <filename>freebsd</filename> in the root directory of the
 	  partition.  For example, <filename>c:\freebsd</filename>.  The
 	  directory structure of the CDROM or FTP site must be partially
 	  reproduced within this directory, so we suggest using the DOS