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In this video I will guide you to turn your computer into a Synology NAS with DSM 7.1 operating system
First you need to prepare the following equipment: a computer to build a Synology NAS
Another computer for configuration and a USB stick
To do this, you perform 6 basic steps as above, let's get started
Step 1 you download the tool tinycore redpill
My download link is in the description of the video
You will get a compressed file, you extract it with Winrar or 7zip
The final file is about 1GB in size and has the extension img
To write this file to a USB stick you use the software Win32DiskImager
You select your USB stick and navigate to the file you just downloaded in the previous step
After a few minutes, you will have the USB stick you want
Next you plug the USB stick into the target computer
You customize the computer's boot order to a USB stick
Depending on the manufacturer, there will be different configuration methods
If your motherboard is ASUS then do as I am
It will take you about 1 to 2 minutes to start up until the simple graphical interface appears as above
You look at the options below the screen and you open the command window
The important thing you need to get is the address of the target computer so you use the ifconfig command to get it
As in this example the ip address is 10.11.32.49
You use this address for remote access using ssh
Default username is tc and password is P@ssw0rd
You use 6 commands to get the job done, I'll leave these in the description
So all you have to do is copy and paste it into the command window and you're done
The first two commands help you update and upgrade
Each USB stick has different VID and PID parameters,
so the third command will automatically find these information and configure it for you
As here VID is 0x090C and PID is 0x1000
There are two options for configuring the MAC address: randomly generate or use the real MAC address
Using the real MAC address will help you to configure WoL for Synology NAS
The 5th command is to build the loader, I choose DS920+ to show in this video because it will help you avoid unexpected errors
Also you can build loaders for other models but a suitable motherboard is required
The last command is to reboot to use the newly created loader
Next, use the Synology Assistant software to search for NAS devices in your network
After a while of searching you found a new Synology device that was not installed
You click on it and a welcome page appears
Next, go to Synology's homepage and download the operating system for your NAS device
You search for the operating system that corresponds to the DS920+
Next you choose DSM 7.1 42661 and download
You will get a file with extension pat with size almost 400MB
You go back to the settings page to upload the downloaded operating system file
It will take about 5 to 10 minutes to install DSM 7.1 for your NAS device so please wait patiently
You will be asked to name and create an admin account for your Synology NAS
An important note is that you set the update to manual mode because it will cause error after updating
Finally got the job done and turned a PC into a Synology NAS with DSM 7.1
Now you can do everything with it like any other Synology NAS device
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