Index: en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/jails/chapter.xml
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--- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/jails/chapter.xml
+++ en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/jails/chapter.xml
@@ -214,8 +214,17 @@
     <para>Mount the install media as covered in &man.mdconfig.8;
       when using the install ISO:</para>
 
-    <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>mount -t cd9660 /dev/`mdconfig -f cdimage.iso` /mnt</userinput></screen>
+    <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>mount -t cd9660 /dev/`mdconfig -f cdimage.iso` /mnt</userinput>
+&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /mnt/usr/freebsd-dist/</userinput></screen>
 
+    <para>Alternatively, download the tarballs from a mirror:</para>
+
+    <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>sh</userinput>
+&prompt.root; <userinput>export DESTRELEASE=<replaceable>12.0-RELEASE</replaceable></userinput>
+&prompt.root; <userinput>export DESTARCH=<replaceable>`uname -m`</replaceable></userinput>
+&prompt.root; <userinput>export SOURCEURL=<replaceable>http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/</replaceable>FreeBSD/releases/$DESTARCH/$DESTRELEASE/</userinput>
+&prompt.root; <userinput>for set in base ports; do fetch $SOURCEURL/$set.txz ; done</userinput></screen>
+
     <para>Extract the binaries from the tarballs on the install media
       into the declared destination.  Minimally, only the base set
       needs to be extracted, but a complete install can be performed
@@ -223,11 +232,11 @@
 
     <para>To install just the base system:</para>
 
-    <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>tar -xf /mnt/usr/freebsd-dist/base.txz -C $DESTDIR</userinput></screen>
+    <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>tar -xf base.txz -C $DESTDIR</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>To install everything except the kernel:</para>
 
-    <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>for set in base ports; do tar -xf /mnt/usr/freebsd-dist/$set.txz -C $DESTDIR ; done</userinput></screen>
+    <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>for set in base ports; do tar -xf $set.txz -C $DESTDIR ; done</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>The &man.jail.8; manual page explains the procedure for
       building a jail:</para>