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  1. Legacy (Outdated) Tutorials

    These are outdated tutorials and left here for reference only.

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37 topics in this forum

  1. Tutorial: Install/Migrate DSM 5.2 to 6.1.x (Jun's loader) 1 2 3 4 21

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 505 replies
    • 481,696 views

  2. Tutorial/Reference: 6.x Loaders and Platforms 1 2 3

    By flyride,
    • 60 replies
    • 92,550 views

  3. Tutorial: DSM 6.x on Proxmox 1 2 3 4 9

    By fonix232,   
    • 223 replies
    • 91,668 views

  4. Tutorial: Install DSM 6.2 on ESXi 6.7 1 2 3 4 10

    By luchuma,
    • 230 replies
    • 121,251 views

  5. XPEnology Tool for Windows x64 1 2 3 4

    By jensmander,   
    • 92 replies
    • 70,818 views

  6. Guide to Native Drivers: DSM 6.2.1 on DS918

    By flyride,
    • 3 replies
    • 21,750 views

  7. Tutorial: How to access DSM's Data & System partitions 1 2

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 29 replies
    • 22,592 views

  8. Guide to Native Drivers: DSM 6.1.7 and 6.2.1 on DS3615

    By flyride,
    • 11 replies
    • 23,016 views

  9. Tutorial: setup a DDNS in DSM 1 2

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 28 replies
    • 19,432 views

  10. Tutorial: Install/Migrate DSM 5.2 to 6.0.2 (Jun's loader) 1 2 3 4 43

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 1,066 replies
    • 556,326 views

  11. memo: Disk Groups

    By AllGamer,
    • 11 replies
    • 9,679 views

  12. Tutorial: installing 918+ 6.2.X DSM on 1.04b loader (transcoding) 1 2 3 4 8

    By Olegin,   
    • 190 replies
    • 50,374 views

  13. tutorial: 4 camera on surveillance station (legally) 1 2

    By le.pipo007,
    • 31 replies
    • 5,218 views

  14. Tutorial: Install 6.x on Oracle Virtualbox (Jun's loader)

    By kitmsg,
    • 19 replies
    • 26,184 views

  15. Expand/resize btrfs Syno volume after disk space increased (ESXI, Hyper-V, ....))

    By Kall,   
    • 4 replies
    • 678 views

  16. How to build and inject missing drivers in jun loader 1.02a 1 2 3 4 5

    By IG-88,
    • 104 replies
    • 37,674 views

  17. Virtualbox and phpVirtualbox on XPEnology 1 2 3 4 24

    By seba,
    • 576 replies
    • 433,118 views

  18. Tutorial: How to downgrade from 6.2 to 6.1 - Recovering a bricked system 1 2

    By Porkchop,   
    • 40 replies
    • 16,841 views

  19. Tutorial: Fix skipped HDD numbers

    By The_Mole,
    • 1 reply
    • 859 views

  20. Benchmarking your synology 1 2

    By Hostilian,
    • 43 replies
    • 4,869 views

  21. Tutorial: Install/DSM 6.2 on ESXi [HP Microserver Gen8] with RDM 1 2 3 4

    By jadehawk,   
    • 78 replies
    • 17,795 views

  22. Tutorial - Modifying 1.04b Loader to Default to 24 Drives

    By autohintbot,
    • 5 replies
    • 2,156 views

  23. Tutorial: Install DSM 6.2 on HP Mediasmart EX485 or EX490

    By jadehawk,   
    • 4 replies
    • 3,328 views

  24. Enabling serial port in ESXi for a VM

    By Balrog,   
    • 8 replies
    • 4,323 views

  25. Tutorial - Install DSM 6.1.5 on ESXi 6.5 1 2

    By Digital,
    • 38 replies
    • 47,453 views