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@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+# Installing Windshaft-CartoDB #
+
+## Requirements ##
+Make sure that you have the requirements needed. These are
+
+- Core
+  - Node.js >=0.8
+  - npm >=1.2.1 <2.0.0
+  - PostgreSQL >8.3.x, PostGIS >1.5.x
+  - Redis >2.4.0 (http://www.redis.io)
+  - Mapnik 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1.0, 2.2.0, 2.3.0. See [Installing Mapnik](https://github.com/CartoDB/Windshaft#installing-mapnik).
+  - Windshaft: check [Windshaft dependencies and installation notes](https://github.com/CartoDB/Windshaft#dependencies)
+  - libcairo2-dev, libpango1.0-dev, libjpeg8-dev and libgif-dev for server side canvas support
+
+- For cache control (optional)
+  - CartoDB 0.9.5+ (for `CDB_QueryTables`)
+  - Varnish (http://www.varnish-cache.org)
+
+- For running the testsuite
+  - ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org)
+
+
+Dependencies installation example:
+
+  ```shell
+  sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:cartodb/cairo
+  sudo apt-get update
+  sudo apt-get install -y build-essential checkinstall pkg-config libcairo2-dev libjpeg8-dev libgif-dev
+  ```
+
+## Build/install ##
+
+To fetch and build all node-based dependencies, run:
+
+```
+npm install
+```
+
+Note that the ```npm install``` step will populate the node_modules/
+directory with modules, some of which being compiled on demand. If you
+happen to have startup errors you may need to force rebuilding those
+modules. At any time just wipe out the node_modules/ directory and run
+```npm install``` again.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+++ b/README.md
@@ -13,32 +13,9 @@ This is the [CartoDB Maps API](http://docs.cartodb.com/cartodb-platform/maps-api
 * provides a link to varnish high speed cache
 * provides a [template maps API](https://github.com/CartoDB/Windshaft-cartodb/blob/master/docs/Template-maps.md)
 
-Requirements
-------------
- - Core
-   - Node.js >=0.8
-   - npm >=1.2.1 <2.0.0
-   - PostgreSQL >8.3.x, PostGIS >1.5.x
-   - Redis >2.4.0 (http://www.redis.io)
-   - Mapnik 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1.0, 2.2.0, 2.3.0. See [Installing Mapnik](https://github.com/CartoDB/Windshaft#installing-mapnik).
-   - Windshaft: check [Windshaft dependencies and installation notes](https://github.com/CartoDB/Windshaft#dependencies)
-   - libcairo2-dev, libpango1.0-dev, libjpeg8-dev and libgif-dev for server side canvas support
-
-- For cache control (optional)
-   - CartoDB 0.9.5+ (for `CDB_QueryTables`)
-   - Varnish (http://www.varnish-cache.org)
-
-- For running the testsuite
-   - ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org)
-
-Dependencies installation example:
-
-```shell
-sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:cartodb/cairo
-sudo apt-get update
-sudo apt-get install -y build-essential checkinstall pkg-config libcairo2-dev libjpeg8-dev libgif-dev
-```
-
+Install
+-------
+See [INSTALL.md](INSTALL.md) for detailed installation instructions.
 
 Configure
 ---------
@@ -49,21 +26,6 @@ see ```./configure --help``` to see available options.
 
 Look at lib/cartodb/server_options.js for more on config
 
-Build/install
--------------
-
-To fetch and build all node-based dependencies, run:
-
-```
-npm install
-```
-
-Note that the ```npm install``` step will populate the node_modules/
-directory with modules, some of which being compiled on demand. If you
-happen to have startup errors you may need to force rebuilding those
-modules. At any time just wipe out the node_modules/ directory and run
-```npm install``` again.
-
 Upgrading
 ---------