diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 2c1959ef407d7f0e010b12a7c1f45c035049e65b..426c61d1aa9cda2a3f1512f15597d66d276bac56 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,11 +1,15 @@
-Preliminary Installation Notes
+Preliminary Mininet Installation/Configuration Notes
 
+- Mininet is not currently 'installed.' If you want to install it,
+  so that you can 'import mininet', place it somewhere in your
+  python path.
+  
 - A functional netns binary is required to run mininet, but currently you
   have to compile it and install it yourself from the included .c file:
 
   to make it: make netns (or cc -o netns netns.c)
-  to test it: ./netns /bin/echo 
-  to 'install' a link to it:
+  to test it: ./netns /sbin/ifconfig -a 
+  to 'install' a link to it, you could do something like:
     sudo ln -s /home/openflow/mininet/netns /usr/local/bin/netns
 
   Installation is simplest with a distribution that includes a kernel
@@ -17,7 +21,7 @@ Preliminary Installation Notes
 
     sudo aptitude/yum install iperf
 
-  We assume you already have ping installed.
+  We assume you already have ping installed. ;-)
   
 - You may need other packages to run the examples, e.g.
 
diff --git a/README b/README
index 6e9754a483d307dfa43f28c9c6e7b02235da0d48..028ac4733f93c49eced35d775773ff15d40a5d07 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -24,12 +24,12 @@ In order to run Mininet, you must have:
   datapath may be used, and the tun or ofdatapath kernel modules must be
   loaded, respectively)
 
-* Python, Bash, etc.
+* Python, Bash, Ping, iPerf, etc.
 
-* Root privilieges (required for network device access)
+* Root privileges (required for network device access)
 
-* The netns program or equivalent (included as netns.c) installed
-  in an appropriate path location.
+* The netns program (included as netns.c), or an equivalent program called
+  'netns', installed in an appropriate path location.
   
 * mininet.py installed in an appropriate Python path location.
 
@@ -41,41 +41,15 @@ Currently mininet includes:
 - A simple network infrastructure (class Network and its descendants
   TreeNet, GridNet and LinearNet) for creating scalable topologies and
   running experiments (using someNetwork.run( test ) )
-	
+  
 - Some simple tests which can be run using someNetwork.run( test )
 	
 - A simple command-line interface which may be invoked on a network using
   .run( Cli )
 	
 - Examples (in examples/ directory) to help you get started.
-	
-Notes and Advice:
-
-For scalable configurations, you may need to increase some of your kernel
-limits. For example, you could add something like the following to
-/etc/sysctl.conf:
-
-# OpenFlow: get rid of ipv6
-net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
-net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1
-
-# Mininet: Increase open file limit
-fs.file-max = 100000
-
-# Mininet: increase network buffer space
-net.core.wmem_max = 16777216
-net.core.rmem_max = 16777216
-net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 10240 87380 16777216
-net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 10240 87380 16777216
-net.core.netdev_max_backlog = 5000
-
-# Mininet: increase arp cache size
-net.ipv4.neigh.default.gc_thresh1 = 4096 
-net.ipv4.neigh.default.gc_thresh2 = 8192 
-net.ipv4.neigh.default.gc_thresh3 = 16384
 
-# Mininet .... and increase routing table size
-net.ipv4.route.max_size=32768
+Some preliminary installation notes are included in the INSTALL file.
 
 ---
 Bob Lantz