Mount Airy Learning Tree's Computer Volunteer Group

Computer Volunteer Group Activities Conducted on June 5, 2002
At Mount Airy Presbyterian Church

Walter and Jorge reported that Monday they delivered 5 computers- (2 of which have NIC cards)- to the Germantown Women's Y. Agnes Wajdyk thanked them saying that these were "Some of the best computers donated to them so far."
The group will go back Tuesday, June 11th at 10:00 AM.

Mr. Jenkins noted that:
1. The group bring memory sticks- more RAM when they go next week.
2. The back pack cd rom drive will be used to install new OS (Windows98) and MS Office software. These CD's should go with you. Also remember to check that you have "BPCDROM" file before you go, for the portable cd rom drive, it will go on "C:\BPCDROM."
3. The machines need to be wiped-(using fdisk command) of everything on the hard drives.
4. Determine how much cable will be needed.

Mr. Jenkins reported that DSL is now on order for the Mt. Airy Presbyterian Computer Lab. With the DSL service we will have 10 MB's of space on the service provider's server. We can use this space on their server to upload web pages. Yes.

Note from Secretary: From now on the minutes website (http://members.aol.com/maltcvg) will have my unedited notes on it as soon as I type them up. I am asking for your assistance to help me make necessary changes or additions. Thank you in advance for your help. -Susan Kenney

Next week we will need to:

Secure the hanging cable between the 2 and third row closest to the door. This has been an issue since the second week.

1. Disc Image from machine 4 to machines 1 and 3. When we re-image the machines the IP address needs to be reset.
2. Install Norton-Anti Virus on machines: 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 12.
3. Need to locate a machine that we will be using for a server, it should be a Pentium 1 with a 166 megahertz clock speed and absolutely need a cd rom drive.


****** Recap of AVupdate.bat lesson

Mr. Jenkins brought in and installed a recent upgrade patch to Norton Anti Virus Software that he downloaded from the web (file name 0528i32.exe) he put it in his share(d) directory (a location on his instructor machine's hard drive that we have access to- C:\\My Docs\For Students)

With Mr. Jenkins help we wrote a small batch file in notepad using DOS commands:

rem**** Norton Antivirus Signature Update****
rem **** If Update is on local drive then skip***
if exist c:\temp\0528i32.exe goto skip
del c:\temp\*i32.exe
copy \\Instructor\frm_Inst\0528i32.exe c:\temp
c:\temp\0528i32.exe
:SKIP
rem*****end of virus signature update****

The first 2 lines and the last lines with REM command are ignored by dos.
the third line checks for the existence of the file 0528i32.exe if it exists then the process is skipped
The fourth line deletes any files in the temp folder with i32.exe- * is the symbol for wild card.
Fifth line will copy the instructors file in this location \\Instructor\frm_Inst\0528i32.exe to the temp folder on your hard drive.
Sixth line executes the program 0528i32.exe
Seventh line is the skip which refers to what happens if the file already exists.

****** end of recap of AVupdate.bat lesson

Next week, we will be altering the AVupdate batch file, naming convention for the files because Mr. Jenkins will be changing the file names on his share.
Also next week, we will probably be pulling these new improved AVupdate batch files from a network drive and putting this into our start up directory so that the batch file will be run automatically each time we boot our machines.

Notes on batch files, they are script/macros instructions in Dos created in a text editor- notepad.
After their creation The files must be named with a .bat extension so that windows can associate the newly created files with the batch processing program. They must be associated with the program in order to run/execute.

To run notepad, if you don't know where it is start, run, notepad, enter.

Two reminders for Mr. Jenkins-

1. check with the learning tree office concerning networking books, for new lending library at the Lab.
2. Bring in the "destroyed in flood" 100 MB switch for us to open and look at.

Next Meeting Wednesday, June 12, 2002



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