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  1. Legacy (Outdated) Tutorials

    These are outdated tutorials and left here for reference only.

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31 topics in this forum

  1. XPEnology Tool for Windows x64

    By jensmander,   
    • 52 replies
    • 22,618 views

  2. Tutorial: DSM 6.x on Proxmox

    By fonix232,   
    • 147 replies
    • 60,748 views

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

    By flyride,
    • 17 replies
    • 8,206 views

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

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 458 replies
    • 304,514 views

  5. Tutorial: setup a DDNS in DSM

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 28 replies
    • 12,581 views

  6. Tutorial: Install/Migrate DSM 5.2 to 6.0.2 (Jun's loader)

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 1,066 replies
    • 523,690 views

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

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 24 replies
    • 16,314 views

  8. How to build and inject missing drivers in jun loader 1.02a

    By IG-88,
    • 97 replies
    • 28,287 views

  9. memo: Disk Groups

    By AllGamer,
    • 11 replies
    • 8,891 views

  10. Create a Bootable USB on OS X

    By Moogs,
    • 8 replies
    • 17,304 views

  11. Downgrade from DSM 6.0

    By brantje,
    • 85 replies
    • 82,699 views

  12. Tutorial: Install/DSM 6.2 on ESXi [HP Microserver Gen8] with RDM

    By jadehawk,   
    • 60 replies
    • 5,030 views

  13. Tutorial: Install DSM 6.2 on ESXi 6.7

    By luchuma,
    • 101 replies
    • 31,584 views

  14. Tutorial - Install DSM 6.1.5 on ESXi 6.5

    By Digital,
    • 37 replies
    • 34,024 views

  15. Guide to Native Drivers: DSM 6.1.7 on DS3615

    By flyride,
    • 0 replies
    • 209 views

  16. Benchmarking your synology

    By Hostilian,
    • 30 replies
    • 1,574 views

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

    By kitmsg,
    • 16 replies
    • 18,217 views

  18. Enabling serial port in ESXi for a VM

    By Balrog,   
    • 6 replies
    • 2,226 views

  19. Tutorial: How to downgrade from 6.2 to 6.1 - Recovering a bricked system

    By Porkchop,   
    • 17 replies
    • 7,187 views

  20. Tutorial: DSM 6.2 on VMWare Workstation Player 15

    By WhileDekker,   
    • 1 reply
    • 2,168 views

  21. Tutorial: installing 918+ 6.2.X DSM on 1.04b loader (trancoding)

    By Olegin,   
    • 0 replies
    • 1,370 views

  22. Virtualbox and phpVirtualbox on XPEnology

    By seba,
    • 542 replies
    • 415,493 views

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

    By jadehawk,   
    • 3 replies
    • 1,595 views

  24. Quick & Easy way to change HDD (equal or greater capacity)

    By DHD,
    • 0 replies
    • 1,787 views

  25. Howto add package sources quickly & backup conf

    By endormmc,
    • 0 replies
    • 1,059 views