Rookie Q: Building Kernel

[K <kmoore proaxis com>]

Many of you will probably find this rather amusing.

I installed Linux the other day and now I am trying to get my various
pieces of hardware working.  Namely, my sound card and modem.  Well, I
learned from some books that I need to rebuild my kernel to set up those
devices.  The first thing I am told I have to do is install the kernel
source code from the CDROM.  However, all the books I have fail to
indicate how this is to be done.  They all say the kernel is to be
installed in the /usr/src/linux directory but they don't say how to
install it there.

The next thing I need to do (according to my books) is run "make config"
and answer the questions.  Well, when I run "make config" I get the
error:  
make: *** No rule to make target 'config'. Stop.

So that makes me think that I must not be ready to run "make config" yet
which leads me back to installing the source code.  Please help.

BTW: has anybody else noticed that the archive search engine on Red
Hat's web site chokes on searches involving more than one word?

Thanks in advance for the help.

KM
kmoore proaxis com