New MacMini - Can't Repartition

Hey guys, I have a problem that I hope you can help with.
I have a new MacMini without the optical drive. Someone here took it and tried to install Linux on it and now I need to undo that and get MacOS back on there as the only OS. The problem is I can't get the Linux partition off of the drive.
I boot from the Recovery Partition and then run disk utility. When I try to set the disk back to one large pertition I get the error that says 'Failed to unmount the disk' and the re-partitioning fails.
Is there a way to undo this partition?

You probably can't repartition the entire HD because that would require unmounting the entire HD, which it can't do since you're booting from one of the partitions on it -- the recovery partition.
Got another Mac? Maybe if you put the Mini in Firewire Target Disk mode and hook it up to another Mac, you could then erase and repartition the entire drive.

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