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  1. Legacy (Outdated) Tutorials

    These are outdated tutorials and left here for reference only.

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47 topics in this forum

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

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 560 replies
    • 631,729 views

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

    By luchuma,
    • 316 replies
    • 232,406 views

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

    By fonix232,   
    • 280 replies
    • 133,865 views

  4. Tutorial: setup a DDNS in DSM 1 2

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 37 replies
    • 29,897 views

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

    By jensmander,   
    • 100 replies
    • 134,135 views

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

    By flyride,
    • 90 replies
    • 226,142 views

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

    By jensmander,   
    • 5 replies
    • 1,946 views

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

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 1,069 replies
    • 591,671 views

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

    By flyride,
    • 17 replies
    • 53,543 views

  10. Guide to Native Drivers: DSM 6.2.1 on DS918

    By flyride,
    • 12 replies
    • 44,210 views

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

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 29 replies
    • 28,206 views

  12. Virtualbox and phpVirtualbox on XPEnology 1 2 3 4 25

    By seba,
    • 611 replies
    • 453,415 views

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

    By autohintbot,
    • 20 replies
    • 5,485 views

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

    By Kall,   
    • 6 replies
    • 1,613 views

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

    By TyphoonNL,
    • 4 replies
    • 2,567 views

  16. Tutorial: Lancache combined with Pi-hole

    By smileyworld,   
    • 3 replies
    • 885 views

  17. Enabling serial port in ESXi for a VM

    By Balrog,   
    • 13 replies
    • 6,557 views

  18. sata and sas config commands in grub.cfg and what they do

    By IG-88,
    • 0 replies
    • 142 views

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

    By Digital,
    • 39 replies
    • 55,964 views

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

    By WetJet43,
    • 1 reply
    • 509 views

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

    By Olegin,   
    • 241 replies
    • 104,285 views

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

    By Vodka2014,
    • 21 replies
    • 7,569 views

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

    By le.pipo007,
    • 41 replies
    • 13,508 views

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

    By jadehawk,   
    • 86 replies
    • 28,464 views

  25. Tutorial: Use Linux to Create Bootable Xpenology USB

    By shrabok,   
    • 10 replies
    • 2,287 views