installing while running knoppix 3.3 from cd

[Stephen]

thanks fingers, but this doesnt work, I created a hda2 and made it a swap partition but but it just sits there empty. do I have to make it active? also how do i run. make install ?

Did you use mkswap /dev/hda2 after creating the partition to actually make it a swap partition it is not enough to simply set the partition to type swap. If you do this from the CD after booting then use swapon -a to turn it on and have it in use (do not forget to use sudo in front of the commands when booted from CD).