diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing-from-other-distro.section.md b/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing-from-other-distro.section.md
index 10ac2be4e161..38f0e5301472 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing-from-other-distro.section.md
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing-from-other-distro.section.md
@@ -42,9 +42,11 @@ The first steps to all these are the same:
     will be safer to use the `nixos-*` channels instead:
 
     ```ShellSession
-    $ nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-version nixpkgs
+    $ nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-<version> nixpkgs
     ```
 
+    Where `<version>` corresponds to the latest version available on [channels.nixos.org](https://channels.nixos.org/).
+
     You may want to throw in a `nix-channel --update` for good measure.
 
 1.  Install the NixOS installation tools: