diff --git a/docs/sources/userguide/dockerimages.md b/docs/sources/userguide/dockerimages.md
index 3fe6aa28f6..f97231506e 100644
--- a/docs/sources/userguide/dockerimages.md
+++ b/docs/sources/userguide/dockerimages.md
@@ -242,6 +242,9 @@ Let's create a directory and a `Dockerfile` first.
     $ cd sinatra
     $ touch Dockerfile
 
+If you are using Boot2Docker on Windows, you may access your host
+directory by `cd` to `/c/Users/your_user_name`.
+
 Each instruction creates a new layer of the image. Let's look at a simple
 example now for building our own Sinatra image for our development team.