diff --git a/etc/motd b/etc/motd
index ff786fc9b3a7..cbe55b8918c4 100644
--- a/etc/motd
+++ b/etc/motd
@@ -10,8 +10,10 @@ o  Security advisories and updated errata information for all releases are
 
 o  The Handbook and FAQ documents are at http://www.FreeBSD.org/ and,
    along with the mailing lists, can be searched by going to
-   http://www.FreeBSD.org/search/.  If the doc distribution has
-   been installed, they're also available formatted in /usr/share/doc.
+   http://www.FreeBSD.org/search/.  If the doc package has been installed
+   (or fetched via pkg_add -r lang-freebsd-doc, where lang is the
+   2-letter language code, e.g. en), they are also available formatted
+   in /usr/local/share/doc/freebsd.
 
 If you still have a question or problem, please take the output of
 `uname -a', along with any relevant error messages, and email it