Problem in rhel3 installtion

["mohammed saif" <mhm saif gmail com>]

Hi list,
Am new here in the list and I hope to be as corporative as you wish,

Am trying to install RHEL 3 on HP ML 350 , P3 and 512 ram. Every time I reboot the system and boot from the installation cd, I hit the enter to start then skip the media check , after that  about a half  of the screen turned into blue  and "
error 2 reading header: cpio: bad magic" comes up.
I tried to:
- changing the media and checking the checksum,
- kernel parameters: linux hdc=nodma
                              linux apci=off nolapic
                              linux noapic nolapic
and nothing worked.

Is it a H/W problem like RAM or some H/W combination problem thats make this error??

Regards
Mohammad