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  1. Legacy (Outdated) Tutorials

    These are outdated tutorials and left here for reference only.

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46 topics in this forum

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

    By fonix232,   
    • 277 replies
    • 125,178 views

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

    By flyride,
    • 88 replies
    • 194,929 views

  3. Tutorial: Install/Migrate DSM 5.2 to 6.1.x (Jun's loader) 1 2 3 4 23

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 556 replies
    • 605,575 views

  4. Tutorial: Install DSM 6.2 on ESXi 6.7 1 2 3 4 13

    By luchuma,
    • 309 replies
    • 209,923 views

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

    By jensmander,   
    • 5 replies
    • 1,054 views

  6. XPEnology Tool for Windows x64 1 2 3 4

    By jensmander,   
    • 97 replies
    • 119,238 views

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

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 1,069 replies
    • 584,934 views

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

    By flyride,
    • 17 replies
    • 47,679 views

  9. Guide to Native Drivers: DSM 6.2.1 on DS918

    By flyride,
    • 12 replies
    • 40,124 views

  10. Tutorial: setup a DDNS in DSM 1 2

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 31 replies
    • 27,244 views

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

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 29 replies
    • 27,050 views

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

    By autohintbot,
    • 17 replies
    • 4,307 views

  13. WetJet's Easy All-In-One ds3617 tutorial for esxi 6.7

    By WetJet43,
    • 0 replies
    • 110 views

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

    By seba,
    • 591 replies
    • 449,606 views

  15. Tutorial: Lancache combined with Pi-hole

    By smileyworld,   
    • 0 replies
    • 156 views

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

    By Vodka2014,
    • 21 replies
    • 6,439 views

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

    By le.pipo007,
    • 41 replies
    • 11,452 views

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

    By Olegin,   
    • 239 replies
    • 94,325 views

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

    By Kall,   
    • 5 replies
    • 1,384 views

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

    By jadehawk,   
    • 86 replies
    • 26,839 views

  21. Tutorial: Use Linux to Create Bootable Xpenology USB

    By shrabok,   
    • 10 replies
    • 1,405 views

  22. Enabling serial port in ESXi for a VM

    By Balrog,   
    • 12 replies
    • 6,000 views

  23. Tutorial: setting up a Let's Encrypt certificate on 6.2.2-24922 Update 6

    By tfboy,   
    • 0 replies
    • 323 views

  24. Benchmarking your synology 1 2 3

    By Hostilian,
    • 52 replies
    • 9,950 views

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

    By jadehawk,   
    • 11 replies
    • 5,585 views