Download the files to a Linux system. Connect a harddisk (which will be wiped) to that system, and run as root
./build.sh <device> <MAC-Address>
MAC-Address is the desired mac address, device is the devicenode of that harddisk. (Doublecheck, it will be erased). Put the disk in the NAS and power it up. It should boot from that disk, and the booted system wil write flash partition dumps to flash. When it's ready (don't know how you would see that, but it can't take more than 10 minutes), switch off the NAS and remove the disk. It should be able to boot from flash. The disk must be removed, as it takes boot precedence over flash.
You can use any mac address. It's not a check, it's just the mac address the box will have.
If nothing is alive at the other side, then no. If you can get in the bootloader, maybe. Depends on the capabilities of the bootloader. In any case it won't be nice. The firmware partitions are >100MB, which will take hours to upload over serial.