Problems with ARM RISC machine with new install

["Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk>]

Machine is an ARM machine (A5000??) with StrongARM, IDE and SCSI disks.

Using potato-pre3 disks.

Downloaded rescue.bin and wrote it to each of two floppies.

Booting appears to work _but_ then "no writeable memory at this address"
or some such message appears.

Attempting to help a friend, who may give up with Debian and just install
ARMLinux :(

All help appreciated.

Please reply to me direct - not normally subscribed to this list.

Thanks,

Andy