configuring the kernel

I have a couple questions of which i am unsure of. Last nite i did my first kernel compilation and i am thinking that i might have been too tired for doing this at 6A (yes stayed up all nite). I might have said yes to a few things and no to a few things that i shouldnt have and want to reconfigure the kernel. The only problem is i am not sitting through another 1.5 hrs of Y/N questions on which 75% i am not sure of while not having any sleep for about 25 hrs. I would rather install RH 2 or 3 before going through that again.
I have RH 7.1 and want to update to 2.4.7. I have the most basic install (the only thing i selected during isntall was kernel development and development so i can compile and redo the kernel of course).

Qustions:
1-does "make menuconfig" require X to be installed? I dont have X, i just have RH 7.1 with kernel dev and kernel sources installed (atleast those were the ONLY things i had selected during install).
2-if i untared/unpacked the kernel to the folder /root/newkern (here is where i did the "gzip -cd linux 2.4.7...... |tar xvf -" command) is it ok to delete the newkern folder and unpack nd then do the "make menuconfig"?

No, all you need is the 'ncurses-devel' package.

Yes, but this will reset your configuration to the defaults. If you want to preserve the choices you made and then modify them in menuconfig, save off the '.config' file before nuking, then move it into the newly unpacked directory.

That said, you shouldn't have to remove the source tree. Simply do:

$ make menuconfig
$ make dep && make clean && make bzImage

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