Project Dreddnaught runs on Gentoo Linux. Installing Gentoo is outside the scope of this project, so you are advised to read the wonderful install docs provided by Gentoo .

For the project box, we had a 120 GB hard drive, and used the following partitioning scheme:

  hda1 /boot 100MB
  hda2 (swap) 2GB
  hda3 / The rest of the drive.

At the time of writing, the Security Enhanced Gentoo Kernel was available for use, however, it aimed at servers and would not work for desktop machines. As a result, the normal Gentoo Sources Kernel was used.

The system that this project was built on used the 2.6 Kernel. For the Gentoo install, gentoo-sources and genkernel were used.

In order to build genkernel, use the following command:

  # genkernel --menuconfig all

The usage of --udev is no longer necessary for the 2.6 kernel because it is enabled by default.