HD Install :: partitioning and formating



My hard drive is swiped. I created three partitions inb cfdisk    hda1 primary bootable 80mgs, hda2 home 3000mgsand hda5 swap 512mgs I wrote the partion table that went alright,then I tried to format the drives with mkefs/dev/hda1 I geta illegal command. So I wrote quit and pressed enter to get out of cfsdisk and it says reboot to acknowledge your new partition table. I reboot I see hda2 and hda5  but no hda1. It says to mount hda2 and hda5 when I try to mount the two partitions with the rtoot command , I get no such command. What am I doing wrong
Try it with:

mkfs /dev/hdax

where x = partition number

instead of:

mkefs/dev/hdax
When I try to format my partions if cfdisk I get an illegal activity. I triedmke2fs/dev/hda# and mkfs/dev/hda# the shutdown command won't work so I typed reboot and that works. After the reboot Itried to format my partitions again after the root command no such command. My hda2 home and my swap partition hda5 are mentioned on the screen as unmounted but I can't see the hda1 partition. It could be my home and swap partitions are alright. It's hda 1 partition that's got me  worried. I opened cfdisk  and the the partion table is there the way I wrote it with the exception of the type I wrote type 83 but  but type 82 is written on the table. I've read everything I could about linux partitioning but I can't find anything about this'
Partition type 82 is a linux swap partition.

You can change the partition type from cfdisk.


Multitudes :)
This is what I'm getting on the screenFAT:bogus logical sector size 0                                                                   VFS:Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:02               mount:you must specify the filesystem type                       umount:/mnt/hda2:not mounted                                        FAT:Bogus logical sector size 0                                         VPS:Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 3:05                  mount:you must specify the filesystem type                         mount:you must specify the filesystem type                         unmount:/mnt/hda5: not mounted                                      Somehow I'm losing my hda1 partiton when I reboot and I can't format mke2fs or mkfs
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