diff --git a/download.html b/download.html
index c3696d3cdaff90c9b14191538b527da48f2c635d_ZG93bmxvYWQuaHRtbA==..f3499836f7d1d7dc55f1acabb816ef8456ad778e_ZG93bmxvYWQuaHRtbA== 100644
--- a/download.html
+++ b/download.html
@@ -242,6 +242,26 @@
 <pre class="literal-block">
 hg clone https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy
 </pre>
+<p>The above command may take a long time to run and if it aborts, it
+is not resumable.  You may prefer this way:</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+hg clone -r null https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy
+cd pypy
+hg unbundle http://buildbot.pypy.org/bundle/pypy-bundle-01.bz2
+hg unbundle http://buildbot.pypy.org/bundle/pypy-bundle-02.bz2
+hg unbundle http://buildbot.pypy.org/bundle/pypy-bundle-03.bz2
+hg unbundle http://buildbot.pypy.org/bundle/pypy-bundle-04.bz2
+hg unbundle http://buildbot.pypy.org/bundle/pypy-bundle-05.bz2
+hg unbundle http://buildbot.pypy.org/bundle/pypy-bundle-06.bz2
+hg unbundle http://buildbot.pypy.org/bundle/pypy-bundle-07.bz2
+hg unbundle http://buildbot.pypy.org/bundle/pypy-bundle-08.bz2
+hg unbundle http://buildbot.pypy.org/bundle/pypy-bundle-09.bz2
+hg pull
+hg update
+</pre>
+<p>If needed, you can also download the bz2 files by other means.
+You can then replace the multiple <tt class="docutils literal">unbundle</tt> commands above with
+a single <tt class="docutils literal">hg unbundle <span class="pre">pypy-bundle-*.bz2</span></tt>.</p>
 </li>
 <li><p class="first">Make sure you <strong>installed the dependencies.</strong>  See the list <a class="reference external" href="http://pypy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/build.html#install-build-time-dependencies">here</a>.</p>
 </li>
diff --git a/source/download.txt b/source/download.txt
index c3696d3cdaff90c9b14191538b527da48f2c635d_c291cmNlL2Rvd25sb2FkLnR4dA==..f3499836f7d1d7dc55f1acabb816ef8456ad778e_c291cmNlL2Rvd25sb2FkLnR4dA== 100644
--- a/source/download.txt
+++ b/source/download.txt
@@ -260,6 +260,27 @@
 
      hg clone https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy
 
+   The above command may take a long time to run and if it aborts, it
+   is not resumable.  You may prefer this way::
+
+     hg clone -r null https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy
+     cd pypy
+     hg unbundle http://buildbot.pypy.org/bundle/pypy-bundle-01.bz2
+     hg unbundle http://buildbot.pypy.org/bundle/pypy-bundle-02.bz2
+     hg unbundle http://buildbot.pypy.org/bundle/pypy-bundle-03.bz2
+     hg unbundle http://buildbot.pypy.org/bundle/pypy-bundle-04.bz2
+     hg unbundle http://buildbot.pypy.org/bundle/pypy-bundle-05.bz2
+     hg unbundle http://buildbot.pypy.org/bundle/pypy-bundle-06.bz2
+     hg unbundle http://buildbot.pypy.org/bundle/pypy-bundle-07.bz2
+     hg unbundle http://buildbot.pypy.org/bundle/pypy-bundle-08.bz2
+     hg unbundle http://buildbot.pypy.org/bundle/pypy-bundle-09.bz2
+     hg pull
+     hg update
+
+   If needed, you can also download the bz2 files by other means.
+   You can then replace the multiple ``unbundle`` commands above with
+   a single ``hg unbundle pypy-bundle-*.bz2``.
+
 2. Make sure you **installed the dependencies.**  See the list here__.
 
    .. __: http://pypy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/build.html#install-build-time-dependencies