Installation of a Driver
The automated installation of a device driver is controlled by a text file with the INF extension. The INF format resembles the old-style .INI files of Windows 3.x fame, but is deceptively more complex. An INF file, properly stored on a Windows 2000 system, allows for an automated or dialog-assisted installation of driver files.
It is important to understand that the end result of a driver installation consists of two persistent changes to a system:
System registry entries describing the driver, its load order, and any appropriate configuration data
Driver files, copied to a suitable system directory
While the INF file is the standard mechanism for affecting these changes, it is also true that a custom installation program ...
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