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To: Ludovic =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
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Hi Ludo,

On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 15:41:26 +0200
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) wrote:

> Would you like to update the =E2=80=98release=E2=80=99 Makefile.am target=
 as well as
> =E2=80=9CSystem Installation=E2=80=9D in guix.texi to reflect that?

Sure, but if possible, let's make sure that the image is tested in all case=
s first.  I hope someone tests the image on a real EFI computer again.  (It=
 works in qemu - but with the complexity of the EFI specification and all I=
'd rather someone burned it to DVD and tried to boot from it)

Then something like the following?

diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 4d1512f8c..1d4364bce 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -632,14 +632,15 @@ release: dist
          image=3D`$(top_builddir)/pre-inst-env                            =
               \
            guix system disk-image                                         =
             \
             --system=3D$$system                                           =
               \
+            --file-system-type=3Diso9660                                  =
                \
            gnu/system/install.scm` ;                                      =
             \
          if [ ! -f "$$image" ] ; then                                     =
             \
            echo "failed to produced GuixSD installation image for $$system=
" >&2 ;      \
            exit 1 ;                                                       =
             \
          fi ;                                                             =
             \
-         xz < "$$image" > "$(releasedir)/$(GUIXSD_IMAGE_BASE).$$system.xz.=
tmp" ;       \
+         xz < "$$image"/guixsd.iso > "$(releasedir)/$(GUIXSD_IMAGE_BASE).$=
$system.xz.tmp" ;    \
          mv "$(releasedir)/$(GUIXSD_IMAGE_BASE).$$system.xz.tmp"          =
             \
-            "$(releasedir)/$(GUIXSD_IMAGE_BASE).$$system.xz" ;            =
             \
+            "$(releasedir)/$(GUIXSD_IMAGE_BASE).$$system.iso.xz" ;        =
             \
        done
        for system in $(GUIXSD_VM_SYSTEMS) ; do                            =
             \
          image=3D`$(top_builddir)/pre-inst-env                            =
               \