I started reading this thread now, and while at it I started thinking about
the DVD media itself, and I think you got the problem: you need DVD-RAM.

I once had to install zVM on a client, and had to buy a DVD-RAM on Sao
Paulo, and spent a good hour scoping those small shops on Santa Efigenia
street downtown looking for a DVD-RAM. A lot of guys gave me a strange
look, they never had heard DVD-RAM before, others asked if I wanted to buy
a DVD and some RAM, others recalled they heard about it, but never saw one
DVD-RAM disk before.

After an hour I got to one shop on a dark corner, and found one DVD-RAM
almost 5 years old, and it was almost 25 times more expensive than the
common DVD-R. The guy that sold me asked me if it was for something from
IBM... I bought it, burned, and installed zVM just fine.

So, find one DVD-RAM (good luck on that), burn, and IPL. Or setup a FTP
server somewhere, and boot from FTP. It will hopefully be faster than order
a DVD-RAM from Amazon and wait it ship.

Mauro
http://mauro.limeiratem.com - registered Linux User: 294521
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2017-01-06 17:06 GMT-02:00 Hamilton, Robert <[email protected]>:

> Here's a funny thing. The documentation everywhere for the HMC, including
> the service guide, says, specifically, DVD-RAM media, DVD-RAM drive,
> DVD-RAM everything. That's a different disk style from the disk I actually
> burned, which is DVD+R DL. I can't actually tell what the SUSE media is
> that I have. Bottom line....they're both ISO 9660. According to my laptop.
> Any chance that's the real problem here, that I don't have the right
> format media???
>
>
> R;
>
>
> Rob Hamilton
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