diff --git a/include/sample_vm/README.txt b/include/sample_vm/README.txt
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-You will need to download an image into this directory..
-Will also need to update the tests to reference this new image.
-
-You could use e.g. the Ubuntu Natty cloud images (this matches the sample configuration):
-$ wget http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/natty/release/ubuntu-11.04-server-cloudimg-amd64.tar.gz
-$ tar xvzf ubuntu-11.04-server-cloudimg-amd64.tar.gz
diff --git a/include/swift_objects/README.txt b/include/swift_objects/README.txt
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-## For the swift tests you will need three objects to upload for the test
-## examples below are a 512K object, a 500M object, and 1G object
-dd if=/dev/zero of=swift_small bs=512 count=1024
-dd if=/dev/zero of=swift_medium bs=512 count=1024000
-dd if=/dev/zero of=swift_large bs=1024 count=1024000