houmic48

Not sure what you guys are talking about. I just did the 6.2 on my f4-220 without any vga cable without any issues. Just went through the normal steps and I had no problems. I did a fresh install from the stock TOS.

Once again, thanks for the info and u are right. It might of needed explaining for other people. I didn't try the other ramdisk but I am happy with where I am at so I am not going to try it. I was just mostly curious as to why it didn't work and your explanation is more than acceptable. So I appreciate it. I could have looked through the forum when trying to get it to work originally and probably found info on it, but than I wouldn't have learned the amount I did by figuring it out myself. So I can't complain.

Yeah, I became well aware it was for 6.2 when it told me it was. I didn't think that needed explaining. What I found weird was that no matter how I tried with the 1.02b loader, the pat file (DSM_DS916+_15217) would never take. Or more specifically the network would never come back up. I tried multiple 6.1 pat file versions but no go. It just didn't like it. Now what I didn't try was using the 1.02b loader for one of the other types. So it may have just been that it didn't like the DS916 one, even though the loader always came up without any issues until I pushed the pat file. Either way, I am new to this as I just found this software tuesday as I was looking for an alternative to the default OS on the NAS. So I don't know much about the bootloader stuff for this specific software. Good old trial and error. But anyways, it is still running good on 6.2 with the 1.03 loader. So I can't complain. Even updated it to 6.2 update 2 without any issues.

I figured I would post this in case it helps someone. It took me a bit of trial and error to figure it out. I was working with a TerraStation F4-220 with the 2gb ram increase trying to get this DSM software to work on it. The bootloader DS916+ worked without any issues but everytime I tried to push the pat file it would quit working. After a bit I decided to go a different route and I tried downloading the 1.03a2 synoboot-ds918p.zip file from the link on this page and I flashed that to my SD card making the changes specified in the tutorial. The bootloader booted up just fine so I tried pushing the DSM_DS918+_15217.pat to the system but it shot me an error saying I needed to use version 6.2.23739 or higher. So I downloaded DSM_DS918+_23739.pat and tried to push that. It worked. So now I am running 6.2 on my system. Just some knowledge, incase anyone runs into the same problems I was having. Besides those changes I followed everything else in the tutorial.