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  1. Legacy (Outdated) Tutorials

    These are outdated tutorials and left here for reference only.

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39 topics in this forum

  1. Tutorial: DSM 6.x on Proxmox 1 2 3 4 10

    By fonix232,   
    • 239 replies
    • 100,590 views

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

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 524 replies
    • 522,750 views

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

    By flyride,
    • 12 replies
    • 28,662 views

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

    By luchuma,
    • 239 replies
    • 145,481 views

  5. Tutorial: setup a DDNS in DSM 1 2

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 29 replies
    • 21,584 views

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

    By flyride,
    • 64 replies
    • 118,754 views

  7. XPEnology Tool for Windows x64 1 2 3 4

    By jensmander,   
    • 94 replies
    • 84,369 views

  8. Guide to Native Drivers: DSM 6.2.1 on DS918

    By flyride,
    • 3 replies
    • 27,346 views

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

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 29 replies
    • 24,075 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
    • 565,300 views

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

    By IG-88,
    • 113 replies
    • 41,280 views

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

    By Olegin,   
    • 207 replies
    • 64,227 views

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

    By seba,
    • 579 replies
    • 438,699 views

  14. Installing RAIDF1 on XPEnology

    By flyride,
    • 0 replies
    • 91 views

  15. Tutorial: DSM 6.2 on VMWare Workstation Player 15

    By WhileDekker,   
    • 11 replies
    • 8,752 views

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

    By applepie,
    • 0 replies
    • 36 views

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

    By jadehawk,   
    • 82 replies
    • 20,717 views

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

    By Porkchop,   
    • 41 replies
    • 19,454 views

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

    By Vodka2014,
    • 7 replies
    • 3,769 views

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

    By jadehawk,   
    • 5 replies
    • 3,923 views

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

    By le.pipo007,
    • 33 replies
    • 7,420 views

  22. Benchmarking your synology 1 2

    By Hostilian,
    • 44 replies
    • 6,165 views

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

    By kitmsg,
    • 19 replies
    • 28,659 views

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

    By Kall,   
    • 4 replies
    • 934 views

  25. Tutorial: Fix skipped HDD numbers

    By The_Mole,
    • 1 reply
    • 1,131 views