--- a/README	Mon Nov 09 15:52:32 2009 +0000
+++ b/README	Mon Nov 09 15:52:58 2009 +0000
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 mercurial-server
 
-mercurial-server gives your developers remote read/write access to
-centralized Mercurial repositories using SSH public key authentication; it
-provides convenient and fine-grained key management and access control.
+mercurial-server gives your developers remote read/write access to centralized Mercurial repositories using SSH public key authentication; it provides convenient and fine-grained key management and access control. 
 
 http://www.lshift.net/mercurial-server.html
 
@@ -22,7 +20,17 @@
     with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
     51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
 
-For details on how to install and use mercurial-server, see doc/manual.docbook.
+Though mercurial-server is currently targeted at Debian-based systems such as Ubuntu, other users have reported success getting it running on other Unix-based systems such as Red Hat. Running it on a non-Unix system such as Windows is not supported. You will need root privileges to install it. 
+
+The best way to install mercurial-server is using your package management system.  However, there is some provision for installing it directly.  On Debian based systems such as Ubuntu, use the command
+
+    sudo make setup-adduser
+
+On Red Hat and possibly other variants of Unix, try
+
+    sudo make setup-useradd
+
+See doc/manual.docbook for the rest of the documentation.
 
 Paul Crowley, paul@lshift.net, 2009