I have found this by typing "mksysb ignite linux pvcreate" into a search engine:-
UNIXguide.net ( AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, LINUX, SOLARIS & Tru64)
It's not bad, but a bit out of date now. It gives a you starter I suppose.
Probably the most important thing to understand is that there is another layer to disk management. In a proper OS such as AIX, you would see the disk after
cfgmgr and make/extend your volume groups with
mkvg or
extendvg respectively. For Linux though, you step back to a DOS world initially.
There is the lovely
fdisk to slice you disks. You are probably best defiining them as a single whole-disk slice of type
8e which denotes Linux LVM. Then run a
pvcreate after which you can
vgcreate or
vgextend and finally use LV commands to build filesystems.
I hope that this gets you started. I'm on the same insane path myself.
So far, there is no
mksysb equivalent.
Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK