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  1. Legacy (Outdated) Tutorials

    These are outdated tutorials and left here for reference only.

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42 topics in this forum

  1. Tutorial: DSM 6.x on Proxmox 1 2 3 4 11

    By fonix232,   
    • 257 replies
    • 110,982 views

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

    By flyride,
    • 16 replies
    • 35,657 views

  3. Tutorial: Install DSM 6.2 on ESXi 6.7 1 2 3 4 11

    By luchuma,
    • 265 replies
    • 175,316 views

  4. Tutorial: Install/Migrate DSM 5.2 to 6.1.x (Jun's loader) 1 2 3 4 22

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 533 replies
    • 564,562 views

  5. Tutorial/Reference: 6.x Loaders and Platforms 1 2 3 4

    By flyride,
    • 79 replies
    • 154,741 views

  6. XPEnology Tool for Windows x64 1 2 3 4

    By jensmander,   
    • 95 replies
    • 100,058 views

  7. Tutorial: setup a DDNS in DSM 1 2

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 29 replies
    • 23,898 views

  8. Guide to Native Drivers: DSM 6.2.1 on DS918

    By flyride,
    • 3 replies
    • 33,060 views

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

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 29 replies
    • 25,530 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
    • 574,207 views

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

    By seba,
    • 586 replies
    • 443,574 views

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

    By jadehawk,   
    • 7 replies
    • 4,594 views

  13. Tutorial: DSM 6.2 on bhyve (FreeNAS/FreeBSD)

    By IST QIAN,   
    • 1 reply
    • 405 views

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

    By Porkchop,   
    • 44 replies
    • 21,892 views

  15. Tutorial: installing 918+ 6.2.X DSM on 1.04b loader (transcoding) 1 2 3 4 9

    By Olegin,   
    • 223 replies
    • 78,673 views

  16. Tutorial: DSM 6.2 on VMWare Workstation Player 15

    By WhileDekker,   
    • 14 replies
    • 10,401 views

  17. Tutorial: Bootloader + DSM 6.1 + Storage on a single SSD

    By TyphoonNL,
    • 0 replies
    • 202 views

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

    By le.pipo007,
    • 35 replies
    • 9,091 views

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

    By jadehawk,   
    • 83 replies
    • 23,685 views

  20. Benchmarking your synology 1 2

    By Hostilian,
    • 49 replies
    • 7,693 views

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

    By IG-88,
    • 123 replies
    • 44,804 views

  22. Tutorial: Use Linux to Create Bootable Xpenology USB

    By shrabok,   
    • 0 replies
    • 485 views

  23. Installing RAIDF1 on XPEnology

    By flyride,
    • 0 replies
    • 349 views

  24. Tutorial: Downgrade/Rollback from newer version of DSM to older version with Settings preserved

    By applepie,
    • 0 replies
    • 222 views

  25. Tutorial: HP MicroServer GEN8 Upgrade From DSM 6.1.7-15284 Update 3 To DSM 6.2-23739 Update 2

    By Vodka2014,
    • 7 replies
    • 4,893 views