One or two people have expressed surprise to me that there are no
installation instructions at the top level.  This should help.  (The
content is copied from README.rst.)

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>
---
 INSTALL.rst | 12 ++++++++++++
 Makefile.am |  1 +
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 INSTALL.rst

diff --git a/INSTALL.rst b/INSTALL.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..07268033188a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/INSTALL.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+Installing Open vSwitch
+-----------------------
+
+To install Open vSwitch on a regular Linux or FreeBSD host, please read the
+`installation guide <Documentation/intro/install/general.rst>`__. For specifics
+around installation on a specific platform, refer to one of the `other
+installation guides <Documentation/intro/install/index.rst>`__
+
+Contact
+-------
+
[email protected]
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index c853085b9ca9..6ad50b6af391 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST = \
        AUTHORS.rst \
        CONTRIBUTING.rst \
        MAINTAINERS.rst \
+       INSTALL.rst \
        README.rst \
        NOTICE \
        .travis.yml \
-- 
2.10.2

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