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Subject: bug#19144: Please provide a bootable ISO image
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 22:48:57 +0100
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To: Matt Lee <mattl@cnuk.org>
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Matt Lee <mattl@cnuk.org> skribis:

> This would greatly increase the number of people who can actually try
> out Guix as they can use a common virtualization tool rather than
> installing on their own computer.

I think we=E2=80=99ll end up doing that, due to popular demand.  ;-)

That said, QEMU can deal with USB images just as easily as ISO-9660
images (see
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-10/msg00024.html>
for instance.)

Ludo=E2=80=99.