should give you a point-and-click interface to the same menu. I haven't used it in years, but it was pretty clunky back then. It's just nicer to poke around in than the text-mode menu.
You should probably start with the .config from your distribution's kernel, rather than the stock vanilla kernel .config. It's usually in /boot, so in make menuconfig/make xconfig you choose to load an existing saved config, then select /boot/config-[kernel version] (assuming your distribution installs the kernel config there). Some kernels may also provide the .config contents in /proc/kconfig (or something similar -- can't remember the exact filename).
