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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index fe184fb..5839336 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 IF YOU HAVE A BINARY DISTRIBUTION:
 
-The two files that SBCL needs to run are sbcl and sbcl.core.
+The two files that SBCL needs to run, at minimum, are sbcl and sbcl.core.
 They are in 
 	src/runtime/sbcl
 and
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ stuff.
 In order to get a usable system, you need to run sbcl in a way that
 it can find sbcl.core. There are three ways for it to find
 sbcl.core:
-  1. by default, in /usr/lib/sbcl.core or /usr/local/lib/sbcl.core
+
+  1. by default, in /usr/lib/sbcl/sbcl.core or /usr/local/lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
   2. by environment variable: 
      $ export SBCL_HOME=/foo/bar/
      $ sbcl
@@ -31,10 +32,21 @@ testing or other special cases.
 So: the standard installation procedure is
   1. Copy sbcl.core to /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib.
   2. Copy sbcl to /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin.
-  3. Optionally copy sbcl.1 to /usr/man/man1 or /usr/local/man/man1.
-The script install.sh does these for you (choosing the /usr/local
-subdirectory in each case).
+  3. Copy the contrib modules that you're using (if any) to the same place
+      as sbcl.core
+  4. Optionally copy sbcl.1 to /usr/man/man1 or /usr/local/man/man1.
+
+The script install.sh does all of this for you, including compilation
+of all contrib modules it can find, and installation of all those that
+pass their tests.  You should set the INSTALL_ROOT environment
+variable to /usr or /usr/local as appropriate before starting
+install.sh: e.g.
+
+   # INSTALL_ROOT=/usr/local sh install.sh
 
+or
+
+   $ INSTALL_ROOT=/home/me/sbcl sh install.sh
 
 IF YOU HAVE A SOURCE DISTRIBUTION:
 
@@ -43,6 +55,7 @@ This software has been built successfully on these systems:
 		os = Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 with libc >= 2.1
 			host lisp = CMU CL 2.4.17
 			host lisp = SBCL itself
+			host lisp = CLISP CVS as of end of April
 		os = RedHat Linux 6.2
 			host lisp = SBCL itself
 		os = FreeBSD 3.4 or 4.0
@@ -65,9 +78,6 @@ This software has been built successfully on these systems:
 			host lisp = OpenMCL 0.12
 			host lisp = SBCL itself
 
-It is known not to build under CLISP (as of early June 2002) because
-of bugs in the CLISP garbage collector.
-
 Reports of other systems that it works on (or doesn't work on, for
 that matter), or help in making it run on more systems, would be
 appreciated.
@@ -111,10 +121,10 @@ To build the system binaries:
   1. Make sure that you have enough RAM+swap to build SBCL, as
      per the CAUTION note above. (As of version 0.6.0, the most
      memory-intensive operation in make.sh is the second call to
-     GENESIS, which makes the Lisp image grow to nearly 128 Mb RAM+swap.
-  2. If the GNU make command is not available under the name "gmake",
-     then define the environment variable GNUMAKE to a name where it can
-     be found.
+     GENESIS, which makes the Lisp image grow to around 128 Mb RAM+swap.
+  2. If the GNU make command is not available under the names "gmake"
+     or "make", then define the environment variable GNUMAKE to a name
+     where it can be found.
   3. If you like, you can tweak the *FEATURES* set for the resulting
      Lisp system, enabling or disabling features like documentation
      strings or extra debugging code. The preferred way to do this is