diff --git a/man/virt-install.pod b/man/virt-install.pod
index e7a25a855..772c9f56e 100644
--- a/man/virt-install.pod
+++ b/man/virt-install.pod
@@ -540,6 +540,10 @@ Specifying a non-existent path implies attempting to create the new storage,
 and will require specifying a 'size' value. Even for remote hosts, virt-install
 will try to use libvirt storage APIs to automatically create the given path.
 
+If the hypervisor supports it, B<path> can also be a network URL, like
+http://example.com/some-disk.img . For network paths, they hypervisor will
+directly access the storage, nothing is downloaded locally.
+
 =item B<pool>
 
 An existing libvirt storage pool name to create new storage on. Requires
diff --git a/virtinst/cli.py b/virtinst/cli.py
index 18a5b2fd5..00294fb4a 100644
--- a/virtinst/cli.py
+++ b/virtinst/cli.py
@@ -660,7 +660,7 @@ def add_disk_option(stog, editexample=False):
     stog.add_argument("--disk", action="append",
         help=_("Specify storage with various options. Ex.\n"
                "--disk size=10 (new 10GiB image in default location)\n"
-               "--disk path=/my/existing/disk,cache=none\n"
+               "--disk /my/existing/disk,cache=none\n"
                "--disk device=cdrom,bus=scsi\n"
                "--disk=?") + editmsg)