diff --git a/guides/symfony1.rst b/guides/symfony1.rst
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@@ -164,6 +164,60 @@ via a ``env=`` option. A common practice is to have one console command file
 per environment. Usually, this means a ``console`` file for the ``prod``
 environment and a ``console_dev`` for the ``dev`` environment.
 
+
+Create a new project
+--------------------
+
+In a symfony 1 environment, to create a new project, you use the global "symfony" executable, or the one contained in the data/bin folder of the symfony1 source:
+
+.. code-block::
+
+    svn checkout http://svn.symfony-project.com/branches/1.4/ symfony1
+    mkdir mynewproject
+    cd mynewproject
+    php ../symfony1/data/bin/symfony generate:project mynewproject
+
+In Symfony2, to create a new project you need to install the symfony bootstrapper first:
+
+.. code-block::
+
+    git clone git://github.com/symfony/symfony-bootstrapper.git
+    cd symfony-bootstraper/src
+    sh ../bin/install_vendors.sh
+    cd ../../
+
+And then use it to create your project. Note that the default format for configuration files is now ```xml```, so if you want to keep the ```yml``` format to which you are used to in symfony 1, you need to specifiy it:
+
+.. code-block::
+
+    mkdir mynewproject
+    cd mynewproject
+    php ../symfony-bootstrapper/symfony.phar init --format=yml --name=mynewproject
+
+Finally you now have multiple external libraries to include in your project. To avoid downloading them for every new project, you can use a symbolic link:
+
+.. code-block::
+
+    ln -s ../../symfony-bootstrapper/src/vendor src/vendor
+
+
+
+Use the console
+---------------
+
+In symfony 1, the console is directly in the base directory and is called ```symfony```:
+
+.. code-block::
+
+    php symfony
+
+In Symfony2, the console is now in the app sub-directory and is called ```console```:
+
+.. code-block::
+
+    php app/console
+
+
 Applications
 ------------
 
@@ -245,4 +299,4 @@ include a routing resource from a bundle, you might do the following::
 To bring in configuration from the bundle, you'll need to import that configuration
 from your application configuration.
 
-.. _`Symfony2 Sandbox`: https://github.com/symfony/symfony-sandbox
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+.. _`Symfony2 Sandbox`: https://github.com/symfony/symfony-sandbox