Re: These Days...
"The Suse download produced an errored dvd that stalled mid way through the install"
In my experience if there's any kind of error on a DVD then installation is probably a waste of time
Was the .iso checksum OK ?. If it was and your hardware will support it why not use a USB install ?
Leap is 42.1 is very new - I'd use 13.2 - I've installed that on a number of machines with no problems at all. I'd also use a liveDVD or LiveUSB to check everything out and then use the install option from that.