HD Install :: swap partition format problem

82 is a partition type, not a file system. cfdisk will partition only, not format.
As far as I know, you should restart after partitioning and then format the partitions. I could be wrong, of course.

Waaait a minute. How'd you get hda1, hda2, hda5 as your partitions using cfdisk?

It looks like you want to use the entire drive for DSL. Cool. Then take down ALL the partitions with cfdisk. Then reallocate hda1 and hda2 as ext2 (type 83) and put swap (type 82) on hda3. Then mk2fs hda1 and hda2, and mkswap and swapon hda3.

You won't be able to add any MS OS's to that drive once you're set up this way, though.

If you have any more trouble, post the output of the p command in cfdisk. That ought to make it obvious what's going on.

Thanks for the replies, I did allocate hda1 and hda2 as type 83 I both are primary partitions then I allocated the next partition as type 82 logical partition I didn't namethe partition hda5 cfdisk did, as soon as I clicked on 82. I tried rebooting after I created the partitions the first time the partitions were recognized but not as hda 1,2&5 but as sev 1,2&5 I didn't think that looked right so I deleted the partitions in cfdisk and recreated them and formated before I rebooted. Maybe that was my problem?

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