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>> 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?

According to the internets... the C3 purports to be a i686-class
processor, and has MMX/3DNow, but does not have the supposedly optional
CMOV instruction that other processors of its class have.  Some people
managed to get i686 kernels to run, some didn't, depending on the distro.

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