diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b95a55b..c8c2625 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,8 +1,73 @@
 # Mirror Env
-## Setup
-Open the file `mirror-vm` to install the dependencies and update its variables to reflect your environment. Then download the Ubuntu 20.04 iso and create the vm.
+This script helps quickly set up a vm development environment for cs club's mirrors.
+
+## Installation
+Install the following dependencies
+- qemu
+- genisoimage
+- ovmf (find the location of OVMF\_CODE.fd, it is system dependent)
+
+Edit the configuration variables in the script file to reflect your system.
+
+The `mirror-vm` script will will automatically install ubuntu using the [autoinstall](https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/install/autoinstall) feature.
 ```
 curl -O https://releases.ubuntu.com/20.04/ubuntu-20.04.2-live-server-amd64.iso
-./mirror-vm create
-./mirror-vm run-install
+$ ./mirror-vm create
+$ ./mirror-vm run-install
 ```
+
+To view the vm, you also need a vnc viewer. [TigerVNC](https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc) is a good choice. Simply run
+```
+$ vncviewer :5900
+```
+
+Due to the way the ubuntu autoinstall is designed, user confirmation is required to start the autoinstallation process. Enter `yes` when prompted with this line:
+```
+Continue with autoinstall (yes|no)
+```
+
+After going through the install process you can run the vm with
+```
+$ ./mirror-vm run
+```
+
+The default login user has
+```
+username: ubuntu
+password: ubuntu
+```
+
+## Post-Installation
+There are some things that will not be setup post install. As of now, it is also required to run a shell script to further configure the system. We will streamline this in the future.
+
+## System Details
+For those that are interested.
+
+relevant lsblk output:
+```
+NAME           MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE  MOUNTPOINT
+vda            252:0    0   10G  0 disk  
+├─vda1         252:1    0  500M  0 part  /boot/efi
+└─vda2         252:2    0    9G  0 part  
+  └─md0          9:0    0    9G  0 raid1 
+    └─vg0-root 253:0    0    8G  0 lvm   /
+vdb            252:16   0   10G  0 disk  
+├─vdb1         252:17   0  500M  0 part  
+└─vdb2         252:18   0    9G  0 part  
+  └─md0          9:0    0    9G  0 raid1 
+    └─vg0-root 253:0    0    8G  0 lvm   /
+vdc            252:32   0   10G  0 disk  
+├─vdc1         252:33   0   10G  0 part  
+└─vdc9         252:41   0    8M  0 part  
+vdd            252:48   0   10G  0 disk  
+├─vdd1         252:49   0   10G  0 part  
+└─vdd9         252:57   0    8M  0 part  
+vde            252:64   0   10G  0 disk  
+├─vde1         252:65   0   10G  0 part  
+└─vde9         252:73   0    8M  0 part  
+vdf            252:80   0   10G  0 disk  
+├─vdf1         252:81   0   10G  0 part  
+└─vdf9         252:89   0    8M  0 part  
+```
+
+Drives vda and vdb are for the main filesystem, they use raid1. Drives vdc, vdd, vde and vdf are in a raidz2 zpool.
diff --git a/mirror-vm b/mirror-vm
index 75ede54..913ce21 100755
--- a/mirror-vm
+++ b/mirror-vm
@@ -3,18 +3,19 @@
 # script for managing the vm for the csc mirror dev environment
 
 # dependencies =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
-# qemu, qenisoimage, ovmf (find the location of OVMF_CODE.fd on your system)
+# qemu, genisoimage, ovmf (find the location of OVMF_CODE.fd on your system)
 
 # user config variables =-=-=
 disk_size=10G
 vm_mem=2G
 ovmf_location=/usr/share/edk2-ovmf/x64/OVMF_CODE.fd
 install_iso=./ubuntu-20.04.2-live-server-amd64.iso
+ssh_port=7777
 
-.PHONY: help create purge run-install run
+.PHONY: help create clean run-install run
 
 help:
-	echo help|create|purge|run-install|run
+	echo help|create|clean|run-install|run
 
 .ONESHELL:
 create:
@@ -22,7 +23,7 @@ create:
 		qemu-img create -f qcow2 drive$$i ${disk_size}; done
 	genisoimage -output seed.iso -volid cidata -joliet -rock user-data meta-data 
 
-purge:
+clean:
 	rm drive* seed.iso
 
 run-install:
@@ -47,6 +48,6 @@ run:
 		-drive file=drive6,if=virtio,id=f,media=disk,format=qcow2 \
 		-bios ${ovmf_location} \
 		-m ${vm_mem} \
-		-net user,hostfwd=tcp::7777-:22 \
+		-net user,hostfwd=tcp::${ssh_port}-:22 \
 		-net nic