diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index bc402463..d211cedb 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ 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
+$ ./bootstrap # to create the configure script, if downloaded from the repo
 
 $ ./configure
 $ make all modules