hello! when i tried to type "make menuconfig" in my kernel directory
this is what i get
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my ncurses are installed and latest according to the terminal when i tried updating it using "yum install ncurses"

please help me i dont have any idea on what to do next

After completing the menuconfig (or xconfig [requires Qt]), the next step is this command:

make dep actually builds the dependencies needed to build the kernel and make clean cleans up. make bzImage actually builds the kernel image itself and make modules builds, just as it says, the *.ko files known as loadable modules.

Now this:
You need to copy the kernel image (which is what cp does) to /boot and then install the modules to /lib/modules, which is what make modules_install does.

Now, after the modules are installed, this:

You need to install initramfs-tools before you can continue (that's obviously what yum does). What mkinitramfs does is build a ramdisk image needed for the kernel to interact with memory. Without it, the kernel image won't boot.

EDIT: One more thing:

Now, you're all set!

Hi,

You need the ncurses-devel package as make complains that you don't have the header files

Regards

Or, to use the xconfig command:

Xconfig is much more newbie-friendly than menuconfig.