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@@ -31,9 +31,10 @@ the YARN resource manager.
 ### Vagrant
 This is a fine way to do this project, though Docker is a bit more streamlined if you already have docker locally. 
 
-As before, we have provided a VagrantFile in the `assignment9` directory. Since
-the Spark distribution is large, we ask you to download that directly from the
-Spark website.
+As before, we have provided a VagrantFile in the `assignment9`
+directory. You can try to use the included spark distribution
+directly. If this does not work, you might be better off using the
+docker approach.
 
 This step is included in the VagrantFile, but if you get any error
    related to `$SPARKHOME`, you can set the variable with: <br> `export