[CentOS] Install of 5.4 i386 formatting is very slow

>avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
>           0.26    0.00   99.74    0.00    0.00    0.00

What options exist in your bios for that controller? That's
rather high %system:)

But it is a rather small proc...