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docs: fix perccli install in all walkthrough docs

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Replace stale Dell tar.gz URL and deb extraction method across
complete-walkthrough.md and walkthrough-phases-7-9.md with the
working method: curl with referer header to get RPM, convert with
alien, symlink binary into PATH.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Claude
2026-06-27 04:27:37 +00:00
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commit 47a56e5745
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docs/complete-walkthrough.md
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@@ -1203,34 +1203,24 @@ SSH into the Proxmox host if you are not already connected:
ssh root@192.168.1.10
```
Download perccli from Dell. On the Proxmox host, run:
Download and install perccli on the Proxmox host. Dell only distributes an
RPM, so we convert it with `alien`:
```bash
cd /tmp
# Download (referer header required — Dell blocks plain curl)
curl -L \
--referer "https://www.dell.com/" \
--user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36" \
"https://dl.dell.com/FOLDER03559396M/1/perccli-1.17.10-1.noarch.rpm" \
-o /tmp/perccli.rpm
# Download directly from Dell (this URL is stable — it redirects to the latest version)
curl -L "https://dl.dell.com/FOLDER06708442M/1/perccli_7.1-007.0318_linux.tar.gz" \
-o perccli.tar.gz
```
> **If that URL does not work** (Dell occasionally moves files):
> On your other computer go to **https://www.dell.com/support/home**, search
> for your Service Tag, click **Drivers & Downloads**, filter Category to
> **Systems Management**, and search for "PERCCLI". Download the Linux version.
> Copy the `.tar.gz` or `.deb` file to the Proxmox host with:
> ```bash
> scp perccli_*.tar.gz root@192.168.1.10:/tmp/
> ```
Extract and install:
```bash
cd /tmp
tar xzf perccli.tar.gz
# The .deb file is inside the extracted folder:
find /tmp -name "*.deb" | head -5
# You will see something like: /tmp/perccli_007.1907.0000.0000_amd64.deb
# Convert RPM → deb and install
apt install -y alien
alien --to-deb /tmp/perccli.rpm
dpkg -i /tmp/perccli_*.deb
# Binary lands in /opt/MegaRAID/perccli/ — symlink it into PATH
ln -s /opt/MegaRAID/perccli/perccli64 /usr/local/bin/perccli
```
Verify it installed:
docs/walkthrough-phases-7-9.md
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@@ -28,34 +28,24 @@ SSH into the Proxmox host if you are not already connected:
ssh root@192.168.1.10
```
Download perccli from Dell. On the Proxmox host, run:
Download and install perccli on the Proxmox host. Dell only distributes an
RPM, so we convert it with `alien`:
```bash
cd /tmp
# Download (referer header required — Dell blocks plain curl)
curl -L \
--referer "https://www.dell.com/" \
--user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36" \
"https://dl.dell.com/FOLDER03559396M/1/perccli-1.17.10-1.noarch.rpm" \
-o /tmp/perccli.rpm
# Download directly from Dell (this URL is stable — it redirects to the latest version)
curl -L "https://dl.dell.com/FOLDER06708442M/1/perccli_7.1-007.0318_linux.tar.gz" \
-o perccli.tar.gz
```
> **If that URL does not work** (Dell occasionally moves files):
> On your other computer go to **https://www.dell.com/support/home**, search
> for your Service Tag, click **Drivers & Downloads**, filter Category to
> **Systems Management**, and search for "PERCCLI". Download the Linux version.
> Copy the `.tar.gz` or `.deb` file to the Proxmox host with:
> ```bash
> scp perccli_*.tar.gz root@192.168.1.10:/tmp/
> ```
Extract and install:
```bash
cd /tmp
tar xzf perccli.tar.gz
# The .deb file is inside the extracted folder:
find /tmp -name "*.deb" | head -5
# You will see something like: /tmp/perccli_007.1907.0000.0000_amd64.deb
# Convert RPM → deb and install
apt install -y alien
alien --to-deb /tmp/perccli.rpm
dpkg -i /tmp/perccli_*.deb
# Binary lands in /opt/MegaRAID/perccli/ — symlink it into PATH
ln -s /opt/MegaRAID/perccli/perccli64 /usr/local/bin/perccli
```
Verify it installed: