diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/installation/installing-pxe.section.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/installation/installing-pxe.section.xml
index 1dd15ddacba8..94172de65ea0 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/installation/installing-pxe.section.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/installation/installing-pxe.section.xml
@@ -7,11 +7,11 @@
   <para>
     These instructions assume that you have an existing PXE or iPXE
     infrastructure and simply want to add the NixOS installer as another
-    option. To build the necessary files from a recent version of
+    option. To build the necessary files from your current version of
     nixpkgs, you can run:
   </para>
   <programlisting>
-nix-build -A netboot.x86_64-linux nixos/release.nix
+nix-build -A netboot.x86_64-linux '&lt;nixpkgs/nixos/release.nix&gt;'
 </programlisting>
   <para>
     This will create a <literal>result</literal> directory containing: *
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing-pxe.section.md b/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing-pxe.section.md
index 2016a258251f..4fbd6525f8c3 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing-pxe.section.md
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing-pxe.section.md
@@ -5,11 +5,11 @@ setup.
 
 These instructions assume that you have an existing PXE or iPXE
 infrastructure and simply want to add the NixOS installer as another
-option. To build the necessary files from a recent version of nixpkgs,
+option. To build the necessary files from your current version of nixpkgs,
 you can run:
 
 ```ShellSession
-nix-build -A netboot.x86_64-linux nixos/release.nix
+nix-build -A netboot.x86_64-linux '<nixpkgs/nixos/release.nix>'
 ```
 
 This will create a `result` directory containing: \* `bzImage` -- the