Installation guide

Chapter 10 Creating Supplemental Drivers Disks 283
The final step in setting up the directory structure on your supplemental
drivers disk is to create individual subdirectories for each driver. For
example, if the driver supports an Ethernet card, the driver must be
copied to the DRIVERS\ETHERNET\drivername subdirectory. (Giving
the subdirectory the same name as the driver is recommended.) If you
are installing two Ethernet drivers, each must be installed in its own
subdirectory.
The contents of the subdirectories of the DRIVERS directory are as
follows:
NIF
Contains network information files, which provide information the
Setup program needs to install and configure network adapter drivers.
XIF
Contains protocol (or transport) information files, which provide
information the Setup program needs to install and configure protocol
drivers.
ETHERNET (optional)
Contains network adapter drivers for Ethernet cards. Each driver and
its corresponding PROTOCOL.INI file must reside in their own
subdirectory, which is listed in the path entry of the associated .NIF
file.
TOKENRNG (optional)
Contains network adapter drivers for token-ring cards. Each driver
and its corresponding PROTOCOL.INI file must reside in their own
subdirectory, which is listed in the path entry of the associated .NIF
file.
PROTOCOL (optional)
Contains protocol drivers. Each driver and its corresponding
PROTOCOL.INI file must reside in their own subdirectory, which is
listed in the path entry of the associated .XIF file.
The Setup program always looks for the .NIF and .XIF files in the
directories DRIVERS\NIF and DRIVERS\XIF. The paths of other
directories correspond to those found on the LAN Manager installation
disks. You can add DRIVERS subdirectories to store drivers that are
not Ethernet, token-ring, or protocol drivers. Be sure that the paths of
these additional directories appear in the path entry of the .NIF files for
the drivers they contain.