diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 1a96f63a..180926ea 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ install:
 	  fi; \
 	  done
 	install -D -m 0644 -t $(DESTDIR)/$(prefix)/lib/systemd/system systemd/*.service systemd/*.timer
+	install -D -m 0644 -t $(DESTDIR)/$(prefix)/share/doc/bootc/baseimage/base/usr/lib/ostree/prepare-root.conf baseimage/base/usr/lib/ostree/prepare-root.conf
+	install -d -m 755 $(DESTDIR)/$(prefix)/share/doc/bootc/baseimage/base/sysroot
+	cp -PfT baseimage/base/ostree $(DESTDIR)/$(prefix)/share/doc/bootc/baseimage/base/ostree 
 
 # Run this to also take over the functionality of `ostree container` for example.
 # Only needed for OS/distros that have callers invoking `ostree container` and not bootc.
diff --git a/baseimage/README.md b/baseimage/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1a759763
--- /dev/null
+++ b/baseimage/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# Recommended image content
+
+The subdirectories here are recommended to be installed alongside
+bootc in `/usr/share/doc/bootc/baseimage` - they act as reference
+sources of content.
+
+- [base](base): At the current time the content here is effectively
+  a hard requirement. It's not much, just an ostree configuration
+  enabling composefs, plus the default `sysroot` directory (which
+  may go away in the future) and the `ostree` symlink into `sysroot`.
diff --git a/baseimage/base/ostree b/baseimage/base/ostree
new file mode 120000
index 00000000..99bd5a25
--- /dev/null
+++ b/baseimage/base/ostree
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+sysroot/ostree
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/baseimage/base/usr/lib/ostree/prepare-root.conf b/baseimage/base/usr/lib/ostree/prepare-root.conf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2faae22b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/baseimage/base/usr/lib/ostree/prepare-root.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+[composefs]
+enabled = true