--- handbook/install/chapter.sgml.orig	2010-07-19 17:03:42.763886000 -0400
+++ handbook/install/chapter.sgml	2010-07-20 08:44:18.609955721 -0400
@@ -630,6 +630,10 @@
 	</listitem>
 
 	<listitem>
+	  <para>A USB Memory Stick</para>
+	</listitem>
+
+	<listitem>
 	  <para>A DOS partition on the same computer</para>
 	</listitem>
 
@@ -695,6 +699,13 @@
       <procedure>
 	<step>
 	  <title>Acquire the Boot Floppy Images</title>
+
+          <important>
+            <para>Please note, as of &os; release 8.0, floppy disk
+              images are no longer available.  Please see below for
+              instructions on how to install &os; using a USB memory
+              stick.</para>
+          </important>
 	  
 	  <para>The boot disks are available on your installation media
 	    in the <filename>floppies/</filename> directory, and
@@ -799,6 +810,70 @@
 	</step>
       </procedure>
 
+      <para>To create a bootable memory stick, follow these steps:</para>
+
+      <procedure>
+	<step>
+	  <title>Acquire the Memory Stick Image</title>
+	  
+	  <para>The memory stick image can be downloaded from the
+            <filename>ISO-IMAGES/</filename> directory from
+	    <literal>ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/<replaceable>&lt;arch&gt;</replaceable>/ISO-IMAGES/<replaceable>&lt;version&gt;</replaceable>/&rel.current;-RELEASE-&lt;arch&gt;-memstick.img</literal>.
+	    Replace <replaceable>&lt;arch&gt;</replaceable> and
+	    <replaceable>&lt;version&gt;</replaceable>
+	    with the architecture and the version number
+	    which you want to install, respectively.
+	    For example, the memory stick images for
+	    &os;/&arch.i386;&nbsp;&rel.current;-RELEASE are available
+	    from <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/&arch.i386;/ISO-IMAGES/&rel.current;/&rel.current;-RELEASE-&arch.i386;-memstick.img"></ulink>.</para>
+
+	  <para>The memory stick image has a <filename>.img</filename> extension.
+	    The <filename>ISO-IMAGES/</filename> directory contains a number of
+	    different images, and the ones you will need to use depends on the
+	    version of FreeBSD you are installing, and in some cases, the
+	    hardware you are installing to.</para>
+
+	  <important>
+	    <para>Before proceeding, <emphasis>back up</emphasis> the
+              data you currently have on your USB stick, as this
+              procedure will <emphasis>erase</emphasis> it.</para>
+	  </important>
+	</step>
+
+	<step>
+	  <title>Prepare the Memory Stick</title>
+
+          <warning>
+            <para>The example below lists <literal>/dev/da0</literal>
+              as the target device from which you will be booting.  Be
+              very careful that you have the correct device as the
+              output target, or you may destroy your existing 
+              data.</para>
+          </warning>
+
+          <para>Replacing <replaceable>da0</replaceable> with the
+            device your memory stick shows up as, erase the current
+            data from the memory stick.</para>
+
+          <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<replaceable>da0</replaceable> bs=1k count=1</userinput></screen>
+        </step>
+	  
+	<step>
+	  <title>Write the Image File to the Memory Stick</title>
+
+	  <para>The <filename>.img</filename> file is
+	    <emphasis>not</emphasis> a regular file you copy to the
+            memory stick.  It is an image of the complete contents of
+            the disk.  This means that you <emphasis>cannot</emphasis>
+            simply copy files from one disk to another.  Instead, you
+            must use &man.dd.1; to write the images directly to the
+            disk:</para>
+
+          <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>dd if=&rel.current;-RELEASE-&arch.i386;-memstick.img of=/dev/<replaceable>da0</replaceable> bs=64k</userinput></screen>
+
+	</step>
+      </procedure>
+
       <para>You are now ready to start installing FreeBSD.</para>
     </sect2>
   </sect1>
