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    Can't delete hard drive partitions

    When I try your 'fdisk' approach it says "This disk is currently in use-repartitioning is probably a bad idea. It's recommended to umount all file systems & swap off all swap positions on the disk". When I try 'umount' it says 'hanging display/entry units to cyclinders (DEPRECATED)'. When for...
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    Can't delete hard drive partitions

    If you are conversant with Arch you will know that the initial installation is only a very minimal preliminary-enough just to give you a working command prompt. That minimalist install doesn't offer to wipe the disk, which is presently virtually full. The full install only comes after a very...
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    Can't delete hard drive partitions

    I want to install Arch on to a 1TB hard drive & I need to delete existing non-Arch partitions that include 3 linux RAID & one W95 ext'd (LBA) partitions. I have tried numerous approaches from online research but nothing has worked for me. Those attempts have been made at the Arch...
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