diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 62f21628..72f29f1b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 CORE: Common Open Research Emulator
 
-Copyright (c)2005-2020 the Boeing Company.
+Copyright (c)2005-2021 the Boeing Company.
 
 See the LICENSE file included in this distribution.
 
@@ -14,6 +14,35 @@ networks to live networks. CORE consists of a GUI for drawing
 topologies of lightweight virtual machines, and Python modules for
 scripting network emulation.
 
+## Quick Start
+
+The following should get you up and running on Ubuntu 18+ and CentOS 7+
+from a clean install, it will prompt you for sudo password. This would
+install CORE into a python3 virtual environment and install
+[OSPF MDR](https://github.com/USNavalResearchLaboratory/ospf-mdr) from source.
+For more details on installation see [here](https://coreemu.github.io/core/install.html).
+
+```shell
+git clone https://github.com/coreemu/core.git
+cd core
+```
+
+Ubuntu:
+```shell
+./install.sh
+```
+
+CentOS:
+```shell
+./install.sh -p /usr
+```
+
+To additionally install EMANE:
+```shell
+reload
+inv install-emane
+```
+
 ## Documentation & Support
 
 We are leveraging GitHub hosted documentation and Discord for persistent
diff --git a/docs/install.md b/docs/install.md
index dd6ea8eb..4f2d6449 100644
--- a/docs/install.md
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@@ -91,7 +91,14 @@ After the installation complete it will have installed the following scripts.
 Please make sure to uninstall any previous installations of CORE cleanly
 before proceeding to install.
 
-Previous install was built from source:
+Clearing out a current install from 7.0.0+, making sure to provide options
+used for install (`-l` or `-p`).
+```shell
+cd <CORE_REPO>
+inv uninstall
+```
+
+Previous install was built from source for CORE release older than 7.0.0:
 ```shell
 cd <CORE_REPO>
 sudo make uninstall