diff --git a/contrib/alpine/README.md b/contrib/alpine/README.md
index 16d55cab..8301dfe0 100644
--- a/contrib/alpine/README.md
+++ b/contrib/alpine/README.md
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 HowTo: Finit on Alpine Linux 3.4
-=================================
+================================
 
-This is a mini-howto for booting a very basic Alpine Linux with Finit.
-It is assumed that the user has already installed a compiler, C library
-header files, and other tools needed to build a GNU configure based
-project.
+Mini HowTo using Finit to boot an Alpine Linux system.  It is assumed
+that the user has already installed a compiler, C library header files,
+and other tools needed to build a GNU configure based project.
 
 To start with you need to first install [libuEv][] and [libite][], by
 default they install to `/usr/local` and Alpine's `pkg-config` does not
@@ -21,14 +20,20 @@ The plugins are optional, but the other configure flags are *not*.
 
     alpine:~/finit# make all install
 
-The installation will skip setting up `/sbin/init`, because it already
-exists, and Alpine is hard coded to use it.  So you have to change the
-symlink yourself to point to `finit` instead of `/bin/busybox`.
+The installation skips `/sbin/init`, because it already exists, and
+Alpine is hard coded to use it.  So you have to change the symlink
+yourself to point to `finit` instead of `/bin/busybox`.
 
-Before rebooting, make sure to install [/etc/finit.conf](finit.conf) and
-the glue [/etc/rc.local](rc.local) from this directory -- check them
-both if they need to be tweaked for your installation, you may not run
-Dropbear SSH or speak Swedish ...
+    alpine:~/finit# cd /sbin
+    alpine:/sbin# rm init
+    alpine:/sbin# ln -s finit init
+
+Before rebooting, make sure to set up a [/etc/finit.conf](finit.conf),
+and possibly also an [/etc/rc.local](rc.local) for one-shot set up and
+initialization like keyboard language etc.  You can use the files in
+this directory as templates -- check them both if they need to be
+tweaked for your installation, you may not run Dropbear SSH or speak
+Swedish ...
 
 [libuEv]: https://github.com/troglobit/libuev
 [libite]: https://github.com/troglobit/libite