basic definition of terms

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 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
 The TeX Live installer works across all supported platforms and allows
-to install TeX Live from various media, including the network.
+to install TeX Live from various media, including the network.  For
+information on initially downloading TeX Live, see
+L<http://tug.org/texlive/acquire.html>.
 
-Post-installation configuration, packages updates, and more, are now
-available through B<tlmgr>(1), the TeX Live Manager
+The basic idea of TeX Live installation is to choose one of the
+top-level I<schemes>, each of which is defined as a different set of
+I<collections> and I<packages>, where a collection is a set of packages,
+and a package is what contains actual files.
+
+Within the installer, you can choose a scheme, and further customize the
+set of collections to install, but not the set of the packages.  To do
+that, remove the undesired packages after installation with C<tlmgr>
+(see reference below).  
+
+The default is C<scheme-full>, to install everything, and this is highly
+recommended unless your disk space is severely limited.
+
+=head1 REFERENCES
+
+Post-installation configuration, packages updates, and more, are handled
+through B<tlmgr>(1), the TeX Live Manager
 (L<http://tug.org/texlive/tlmgr.html>).
 
 The most up-to-date version of this documentation is on the Internet at
 L<http://tug.org/texlive/doc/install-tl.html>.
 
+For the full documentation of TeX Live, see
+L<http://tug.org/texlive/doc>.
+
 =head1 OPTIONS
 
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