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ISO 9660 is a filesystem that was designed to run on optical disks
like CDs or DVDs (but it can run on USB drives as well).  Many people
will burn an iso image to disk and then install the Hurd via that CD
or DVD.  `iso9660fs` is how the Hurd reads those images.