diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index cc2c3f59..bc402463 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ section of the documentation available from http://etherlab.org/en/ethercat.
 
 For the impatient: The procedure mainly consists of calling
 
+$ ./boostrap # to create the configure script, if downloaded from the repo
+
 $ ./configure
 $ make all modules