
Chapter 10 Creating Supplemental Drivers Disks 285
Copying Drivers to the Supplemental Drivers Disk
After creating PROTOCOL.INI files for all the drivers to be included
on your supplemental drivers disk, copy the drivers and their
corresponding PROTOCOL.INI files to the appropriate directories on
the disk. Each driver must reside in its own subdirectory, and the path
must be specified in a .NIF file for network adapter drivers or in an
.XIF file for protocol drivers.
Creating Driver Information Files
Driver information files, along with PROTOCOL.INI files, provide
information needed by the Setup program to install and coordinate
multiple network device drivers. Each network adapter driver must have
at least one corresponding .NIF file, and each protocol driver must have
at least one corresponding .XIF file. Driver information files are text
files that include such data as the name of the driver to be installed, the
type of driver it is, and the path pointing to the subdirectory where the
driver is located on the supplementary drivers disk.
The LAN Manager Setup program displays the names of network
device drivers in these dialog boxes:
• Workstation Configuration
• Network Adapter Drivers
• Network Protocols
• Other Network Adapter Drivers
• Other Network Protocols
Each drivername corresponds to the model entry in its .NIF or .XIF
file. A driver can have more than one .NIF or .XIF file, with each
version of the file representing a different configuration of the driver.
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