Partitioning is not easy, ain't it?

Hi all
At first I have to say I used to use Ubuntu (and Fedora at first) and now I am using openSUSE and because of some problems I've decided to use Arch.
I know about Gnu/Linux but I am not familiar with Terminal (never want to learn it!).
Ubuntu installed on sda8 as /root and sda9 as swap. How do I format it and install Arch (what is mount points_I've never heard about that[1])? I don't want to have any other /home or /var partition.
If I'd had a /home partition on sda10, how would it have been mounted to /root partition (please pay attention there are some data exists on it)?
I've read "Beginners' Guide/Installation". But it is not easy when I decided to install Arch (I'm afraid about my data).
If my words is not clear to understand, tell me to explain my problem.
Thank you all
[1]If I want to tell the truth, I know something about mount points. But it seems the Arch developers decided to remove installer which include some tools.

Me: Oh, what is it?
She: It's Arch Linux?
Me: WOW... Beautiful! How does it work?
She: It's too complicated for you to learn!
Me: No! It's not right!
She: Yeah! I'm going to figure it out! Tell me how you install a software from source!
Me: Hmm mm...!
She: what about downloading by Axel....
Me: [again] Hmm mm...
She: Just copy a Goddamn file PLEASE!
Me: [in this scene I just had a sad face!] ...
Yes {@tomk}, you see what my reason is. But in real the language was Persian and I translate it for you! Cause I'm Persian and want to learn English and Spanish {@ewaller} (But I know I can't talk Spanish in this ten years)! And if you want to know what happened in next scene just tell me!
I know terminal is NOT comfortable for me! But it is not a good reason to use YaST at all! No matter what (I don't know what I have to say in this time)! We say "توفیق اجباری نسیبم شد" Means I had to do it because it was a "must to do"!
I'm not a geek and I don't use my computer for some advanced works or something{@bsilbaugh}! When I migrated from Windows XP to Ubuntu I found every thing different and I do love it! A friendly interface was something that I didn't experience before!
openSUSE is a good option but I don't comfortable with it.
I have Windows Seven on my machine installed on C:\ and three other NTFS partitions but I don't use it anymore.
It is about 78GiB free space I installed Ubuntu on it before and I want to install Arch instead of Ubuntu. (Forgive me @ewaller. I'm not home and can't access my Desktop Computer!)
Every thing must be started on a point and I found my point{@bgc1954}.
As @masteryod said Arch is a start to experience real free world!
@MisterAnderson I tried to use Chakra but it was... .
I think she didn't want to mock me. She just want to let me start from somewhere!
Guys please help me install Arch on my machine!
I hope I could answer all of your questions.
Oh, Do you know anything about Grub2. I just learned how to set up Legacy 0.97!

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w
y
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