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  1. Legacy (Outdated) Tutorials

    These are outdated tutorials and left here for reference only.

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  1. Tutorial: Install/Migrate DSM 5.2 to 6.1.x (Jun's loader) 1 2 3 4 24

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 586 replies
    • 683.5k views

  2. Tutorial: Install DSM 6.2 on ESXi 6.7 1 2 3 4 15

    By luchuma,
    • 353 replies
    • 277.6k views

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

    By flyride,
    • 100 replies
    • 278.3k views

  4. Tutorial: DSM 6.x on Proxmox 1 2 3 4 12

    By fonix232,   
    • 283 replies
    • 147.9k views

  5. Tutorial: setup a DDNS in DSM 1 2

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 45 replies
    • 34.6k views

  6. XPEnology Tool for Windows x64 1 2 3 4 5

    By jensmander,   
    • 102 replies
    • 161.3k views

  7. Tutorial: Mount boot stick partitions in Windows (edit grub.cfg, add extra.lzma)

    By jensmander,   
    • 5 replies
    • 3.3k views

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

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 1.1k replies
    • 604.5k views

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

    By flyride,
    • 17 replies
    • 61.4k views

  10. Guide to Native Drivers: DSM 6.2.1 on DS918

    By flyride,
    • 12 replies
    • 49.8k views

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

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 29 replies
    • 30.6k views

  12. Virtualbox and phpVirtualbox on XPEnology 1 2 3 4 25

    By seba,
    • 618 replies
    • 460.3k views

  13. PhpVirtualbox - An alternative to Adobe Flash plugin EOL!

    Topic was moved to forum General Questions

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

    By jadehawk,   
    • 98 replies
    • 32.3k views

  15. Benchmarking your synology 1 2 3

    By Hostilian,
    • 53 replies
    • 15.2k views

  16. Tutorial: Let's Encrypt certificates on DSM 6.1.X (change API from v01 to v02)

    By jensmander,
    • 1 reply
    • 271 views

  17. Tutorial: installing 918+ 6.2.X DSM on 1.04b loader (transcoding) 1 2 3 4 10

    By Olegin,   
    • 247 replies
    • 121.5k views

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

    By Porkchop,   
    • 48 replies
    • 29.1k views

  19. Tutorial: Install 6.x on Oracle Virtualbox (Jun's loader) 1 2

    By kitmsg,
    • 28 replies
    • 42.7k views

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

    By IST QIAN,   
    • 4 replies
    • 2.5k views

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

    By TyphoonNL,
    • 7 replies
    • 4.6k views

  22. Tutorial: Use Linux to Create Bootable Xpenology USB

    By shrabok,   
    • 11 replies
    • 3.7k views

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

    By jadehawk,   
    • 13 replies
    • 7.1k views

  24. Tutorial: Compile Xpenology Drivers in Windows 10

    By Err0r,
    • 6 replies
    • 7.1k views

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

    By autohintbot,
    • 20 replies
    • 6.5k views