This situation gets funny, so anyone reading further is warned to be sitting on the floor or you'll likely get hurt falling off of your chairs. The talking arch linux disk and instructions for installing talking archlinux had changed but even with that I managed to get archlinux to partition and format the seagate baracooda 7200 1500GB drive I have. Since I didn't have the current talking arch disk and the brailled instructions I wrote no longer apply, I figure why not roll the dice and see if debian will thrash the drive like it did before. So I start over with a debian install and this time no disk thrashing and debian installed on the Seagate Baracooda 7200 1500GB drive with no problems. I find it funny when a competing Linux ends up doing a critical part of the job yet can't complete an installation and then the original desired Linux finally does install on the drive. Archlinux is a small operating system and I have many smaller sata drives I can and will install that system on at a later time since small systems work well on small drives. Larger systems need larger drives.
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