Need guidance- Leap 15.3 Installation aborted due to Invalid signatue for repomd.xml

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Hi Everyone and thanks in advance for any guidance (and please forgive my lack of knowledge). I’ve been using a VERY old version of OpenSUSE on an ancient PC for many years because it suited me just fine for the scientific program I used it for, but now it’s become a necessity to

I have a never-used PC that I’m working with and I’m setting it up to dual boot Leap 15.3/Windows.

I’ve downloaded the iso image for Leap 15.3 (checksum is good) and burned the image to a dvd. When I boot the dvd, it gets only a couple minutes into the installation and I get the error message in a red window:

“cd:/repodata/repomd.xml: Invalid signature. Installation aborted.”

When I hit “ok”, the installation continues, but soon after, I get another error message"

“Calling the YaST module 'inst_complex_welcome has failed.”
Then I see

“YaST2 Error Caller:/mounts/mp_0001/usr/share/YaST2/lib/y2packager/repomd_downloader.rb:86:in ‘read’”

It now aborts the entire installation process and I have to exit.

So, does anyone know what is going on here? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance,

John

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Either your DVD disk or DVD drive are bad. Try another disk, if it does not help, chances are your drive is dying.

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Hi arvidjaar, thanks for the response. So, you think it is just a problem with burning the iso image to the dvd that is causing the failure? I can try burning from a different workstation to see if that helps. The dvd drive on the computer to which the Leap 15.3 is being installed should be good since it has never been used.

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You can also “burn” to 8GB-USB-Stick with dd or imagewriter

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Thanks guys! I burned the iso image to a flash drive and the installation went off without a hitch. I really appreciate the help.

John