Alex, thank you very much for your help. In fact, I was not sitting
in the correct directory as you politely pointed out in your note.
One point of confusion that I've had is how to reconcile differences
between distributions with regard to where pieces of the system are located.
I've have the
Having upgraded from 7.1 to 8.0 I wanted to change a couple of kernel
settings and so typed in (at root) make menuconfig.
The message returned was No rule to make target 'menuconfig'. Stop.
I also tried xconfig with the same result.
I don't understand this because I had no trouble doing this