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  1. Legacy (Outdated) Tutorials

    These are outdated tutorials and left here for reference only.

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37 topics in this forum

  1. Tutorial: Install/Migrate DSM 5.2 to 6.1.x (Jun's loader) 1 2 3 4 20

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 488 replies
    • 429,261 views

  2. Tutorial: DSM 6.x on Proxmox 1 2 3 4 7

    By fonix232,   
    • 165 replies
    • 78,514 views

  3. Tutorial: Install DSM 6.2 on ESXi 6.7 1 2 3 4 8

    By luchuma,
    • 179 replies
    • 85,191 views

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

    By flyride,
    • 57 replies
    • 56,198 views

  5. XPEnology Tool for Windows x64 1 2 3 4

    By jensmander,   
    • 83 replies
    • 51,004 views

  6. Guide to Native Drivers: DSM 6.2.1 on DS918

    By flyride,
    • 3 replies
    • 13,680 views

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

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 29 replies
    • 20,312 views

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

    By IG-88,
    • 100 replies
    • 34,073 views

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

    By flyride,
    • 11 replies
    • 15,649 views

  10. Tutorial: setup a DDNS in DSM 1 2

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 28 replies
    • 16,753 views

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

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 1,066 replies
    • 545,548 views

  12. memo: Disk Groups

    By AllGamer,
    • 11 replies
    • 9,352 views

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

    By Porkchop,   
    • 36 replies
    • 13,298 views

  14. Benchmarking your synology 1 2

    By Hostilian,
    • 42 replies
    • 3,684 views

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

    By Kall,   
    • 3 replies
    • 259 views

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

    By kitmsg,
    • 18 replies
    • 23,075 views

  17. Virtualbox and phpVirtualbox on XPEnology 1 2 3 4 23

    By seba,
    • 567 replies
    • 426,947 views

  18. Tutorial: installing 918+ 6.2.X DSM on 1.04b loader (transcoding) 1 2 3 4 5

    By Olegin,   
    • 108 replies
    • 29,304 views

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

    By jadehawk,   
    • 77 replies
    • 13,724 views

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

    By autohintbot,
    • 5 replies
    • 1,276 views

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

    By jadehawk,   
    • 4 replies
    • 2,610 views

  22. tutorial: 4 camera on surveillance station (legally)

    By le.pipo007,
    • 21 replies
    • 2,605 views

  23. Enabling serial port in ESXi for a VM

    By Balrog,   
    • 8 replies
    • 3,584 views

  24. Tutorial - Install DSM 6.1.5 on ESXi 6.5 1 2

    By Digital,
    • 38 replies
    • 43,624 views

  25. Tutorial: Fix skipped HDD numbers

    By The_Mole,
    • 0 replies
    • 503 views