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  1. Legacy (Outdated) Tutorials

    These are outdated tutorials and left here for reference only.

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56 topics in this forum

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

    By flyride,
    • 110 replies
    • 317.7k views

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

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 30 replies
    • 33k views

  3. Tutorial: Install DSM 6.2 on ESXi 6.7 1 2 3 4 17

    By luchuma,
    • 408 replies
    • 307.9k views

  4. Tutorial: Install/Migrate DSM 5.2 to 6.1.x (Jun's loader) 1 2 3 4 25

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 601 replies
    • 718.3k views

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

    By jensmander,   
    • 105 replies
    • 178.9k views

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

    By fonix232,   
    • 291 replies
    • 157.5k views

  7. Tutorial: setup a DDNS in DSM 1 2

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 45 replies
    • 37.4k views

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

    By jensmander,   
    • 5 replies
    • 4.5k views

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

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 1.1k replies
    • 616.1k views

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

    By flyride,
    • 17 replies
    • 66.6k views

  11. Guide to Native Drivers: DSM 6.2.1 on DS918

    By flyride,
    • 12 replies
    • 53.8k views

  12. how to undo a unfinished update 6.2.3 to 6.2.4 (no boot after 1st step of update)

    By IG-88,
    • 9 replies
    • 1.3k views

  13. Tutorial: How to downgrade from 6.2 to 6.1 - Recovering a bricked system 1 2 3

    By Guest,   
    • 50 replies
    • 31.5k views

  14. ESXi SMART - Extract data and present as website

    By elmuziko,
    • 2 replies
    • 334 views

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

    By kitmsg,
    • 49 replies
    • 47.2k views

  16. DS disappears - "Recoverable" loop fix

    By toastboy,
    • 1 reply
    • 6.1k views

  17. Ansible Playbook - Xpenology USB Creator for Mac OSX

    By shrabok,   
    • 0 replies
    • 28 views

  18. Tutorial: Install DSM 6.2 on HP Mediasmart EX485 or EX490 1 2

    By jadehawk,   
    • 30 replies
    • 8.5k views

  19. Benchmarking your synology 1 2 3

    By Hostilian,
    • 58 replies
    • 17.9k views

  20. Tutorial: RAMDISK in DSM

    By smileyworld,   
    • 0 replies
    • 105 views

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

    By TyphoonNL,
    • 9 replies
    • 6k views

  22. Tutorial: Compile Xpenology Drivers in Windows 10

    By Err0r,
    • 8 replies
    • 7.8k views

  23. Tutorial: Lancache combined with Pi-hole

    By smileyworld,   
    • 5 replies
    • 2.9k views

  24. Tutorial: DSM 6.2.x (DS918+ 1.04b) on VMware ESXi 7

    By mcharo,
    • 0 replies
    • 153 views

  25. Tutorial : How to combine default Surveillance stations licenses on one server.

    By AbuMoosa,
    • 0 replies
    • 168 views