HD Install :: swap partition format problem



I used cfdisk to partition my hard drive, hda1 (partion with the dsl image), hda2 (home) hda5 (swap) I formated hda1 and  hda2  no problem ,hda5  I got                                     root@tty1(/1#mkswap /dev/hda5 swapon/dev/hda5              BusyBox v1:00-prc 10 (2004 .06. 12-14:15+oooo)multicall binary                                                                         us age:mk swap9(-c) (-vol-v1)device (block-count)
preparea disk partion to be used as a swap partion
Options:
     -c check for read ability
      -vo make version 0 swap (max 128 megs)                    v-1
hit the enter button by mistake
   v1make version 1 swap (big!) (default for kernels)            
   block-count  Number of block to use (2.1.117)  (default the entire partion)  I does anyone know what to do with this? I can't continue with the install until I can format the hda5 partion thank-you
Another problem I entered the install the system will not recognize my hda1 dsl image partition as a linux partition.It says maybe I have to reboot or create a newpartition table in cfdisk. Any one have any ideas? I don't know what I'm doing wrong
Did you format /dev/hda1 after you allocated it? Boot DSLLive using
    dsl 2
which takes you to a command line. Then enter these commands
    sudo mk2fs /dev/hda1
    sudo mk2fs /dev/hda2
to set filetype and format / and /home.

Reboot with
    shutdown -r now
after making these sort of changes.

As for swap, I think you're there but you don't realize it.
The steps to readying a swap partition are
    1. allocate the partition (with cfdisk or fdisk)
    2. format it (with mkswap)
    3. mark it available (with swapon)
Depending on what you do and how much RAM your box has, you might be able to live without swap.

Check out DSL Documentation Project section 2.b
Thanks for the reply, I did boot  dsl 2 went to cfdisk created my partitions , hda1 primary, wrote it hda2 home primary, wrote it,hda5 swap logical wrote it , then I clicked on quit, then I formated the partitions after the command line it looked like it worked. Then I did the shutdown _r now. It could be I didn't restart properly. When I did the command ,it gives the kill command  remove cd from cd drive close door press enter then the computer shuts down and restarts Iput the cd back in the drive so it will boot, I type in dsl2  and it boots  it says something about the hd being partitioned  and the swap partition is listed as needing a file system which I thought I did in cfdisk maybe I used the wrong # 82?. I also didn't use sudo befor the format command
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