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> Peoples,
> 
> I'm attempting to install on a Via EPIA-5000 (533Mhz C3/Samuel 2)
> without success... is this platform not supported?

  Hmmm, quite likely not.  Everything in the Cygwin distro is compiled for
i686 or above CPUs.  C3 is crippled, isn't it?  No SSE/MMX, all that stuff?

> Using the same Windows discs/patches, options and Cygwin
> setup.exe/repositories on a spare Duron machine works flawlessly.  Linux
> had been running on the Via C3 box without problems for many years, so
> it doesn't appear to be a hardware fault, though perhaps a C3 is missing
> something present in equivalent-class processors?

  I imagine your linux kernel is compiled for i386.

    cheers,
      DaveK


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