Some Guy wrote:
Ghost 2003:

http://www.dslreports.com/r0/downloa...HOST_BOOTx.zip


Paul wrote:

It looks like you are saying that you downloaded the Ghost zipfile. Is
that correct? It is refusing to download for me. It starts
downloading and fails after about 10 seconds, saying "source could
not be read".

The file is 1.3mb. It will take a half hour on my dialup, but I can
usually DL files of that size without problems.

The file is 1310 kbytes.

On a 56kbit dial-up connection, your throughput should be 5.5 kbyte/sec.

1310 / 5.5 = 238 seconds. That's about 4 minutes. Shouldn't take you
1/2 hour to download a 1.3 megabyte file.

Firefox 2.0.0.20 can download the above zip file with no problem.

Do you have a copy of "wget.exe" ?

Odd thing I'm finding about wget lately. I've got 2 versions of it on
my win-98 computer. Both of them are giving me this error:

idn_decode failed (9): 'System iconv failed'

This is not a host-ip DNS resolution failure, and this has nothing to do
with using wget to retrieve an https url.

wget used to work, but I haven't used it in a while.

When you unpack the above GHOST_BOOTx.zip file, are
you finding it corrupted ? There seems to be a problem
unpacking the second floppy image. The file might have
been truncated.

The copy of wget in the wsusoffline download, doesn't
use a separate iconv.dll like the gnuwin32 version
does. You might test that and see if you get a similar
error. For some reason, the wsusoffline version is
a lot smaller than the current gnuwin32 downloads
one. And I can't tell the history of these things,
because the files don't contain metadata to mark them.

There's nothing magic about the wget, and this is just
an experiment to see if another transfer agent will
give any different kind of result.

Paul