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  1. Legacy (Outdated) Tutorials

    These are outdated tutorials and left here for reference only.

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58 topics in this forum

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

    By jensmander,   
    • 114 replies
    • 208.1k views

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

    By flyride,
    • 121 replies
    • 385.1k views

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

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 40 replies
    • 39.6k views

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

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 618 replies
    • 778.2k views

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

    By luchuma,
    • 417 replies
    • 354.2k views

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

    By jensmander,   
    • 11 replies
    • 7.9k views

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

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 1.1k replies
    • 639.5k views

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

    By fonix232,   
    • 294 replies
    • 174.3k views

  9. Tutorial: setup a DDNS in DSM 1 2

    By Polanskiman,   
    • 45 replies
    • 41.8k views

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

    By flyride,
    • 17 replies
    • 75.3k views

  11. Guide to Native Drivers: DSM 6.2.1 on DS918

    By flyride,
    • 12 replies
    • 60.4k views

  12. Tutorial: installing 918+ 6.2.X DSM on 1.04b loader (transcoding) 1 2 3 4 11

    By Olegin,   
    • 263 replies
    • 151.6k views

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

    By mcharo,
    • 2 replies
    • 4.4k views

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

    By WetJet43,
    • 2 replies
    • 3.3k views

  15. Benchmarking your synology 1 2 3

    By Hostilian,
    • 61 replies
    • 22k views

  16. Tutorial: Install DSM 6.2.x on ESXi 6.7/7.0 as BAREMETAL 1 2

    By snailium,
    • 25 replies
    • 4.5k views

  17. Guide for DSM packages

    By Kamele0N,
    • 0 replies
    • 237 views

  18. ESXi SMART - Extract data and present as website

    By elmuziko,
    • 9 replies
    • 1.1k views

  19. how to undo a unfinished update 6.2.3 to 6.2.4 (no boot after 1st step of update) 1 2

    By IG-88,
    • 41 replies
    • 11.1k views

  20. Tutorial: Install 6.x on Oracle Virtualbox (Jun's loader) 1 2 3

    By kitmsg,
    • 50 replies
    • 55.5k views

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

    By jadehawk,   
    • 32 replies
    • 10.3k views

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

    By TyphoonNL,
    • 12 replies
    • 8.3k views

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

    By seba,
    • 620 replies
    • 479.5k views

  24. Tutorial: Let's Encrypt certificates on DSM 6.1.X (change API from v01 to v02)

    By jensmander,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.7k views

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

    By Guest,   
    • 50 replies
    • 36.9k views