[Leaplist] Please read if you use Fedora Core 9

[William H. Ferguson]

Good morning all,

I have been running Fedora Core 7 for many months on my old computer. 
Recently I bought a NEW Computer on which I aimed to install Fedora Core 
9, the most recent Release.

I bought OSDisc's Fedora core 8 Installation DVD Disc and installed 
Fedora Core 8 on two separate computers.  I performed the two 
Installations of Fedora Core 8 to try to become familiar with it 
figuring that Installing Fedora Core 9 would be similar in behavior.

My first learning step was to do installation of the "Default" version 
of Fedora Core 8 on the NEW Computer.

On my NEW computer, which has only a single Hard Drive of 500 GB size,  
the Default version of Fedora Core 8 now installed ,  I used the 
Anaconda Partitioning program within the FC-8 Installation Disc and used 
the "Custom" method of doing the partitioning,  I rejected the LVM 
method of partitioning. I used only the Free Space of the single Hard 
Drive to create 13 separate partitions from that Free Space.

When this Fedora Core 8 Op. system computer is booted, each Partition 
appears on the Desktop as an Icon with its name labeled on it. The 
system runs perfectly.

With this experience behind me, I then used OSDisc's Fedora core 9 
Installation DVD Disc and installed Fedora Core 9 on the NEW computer 
successfully.

When the NEW computer is booted into Fedora Core 9  I was surprised to 
see that the Desktop is different in appearance than was its appearance 
with Fedora Core 8. The Desktop in Fedora Core 9 only sports two 
Icons.....not the 13 Partitions plus "Computer" and "William's Home" as 
seen when Fedora Core 8 was booted. With Fedora Core 9 the Desktop has 
only two icons:
They are "Computer" and  "William's Home."

When the "Computer" icon is opened  six "drive" icons appear plus one 
icon labeled "File System." Opening "File System" reveals many folders 
and all the partitions I created are among them.

Now---at last---here's my Question for those who have successfully 
installed Fedora Core 9:
Do the just-above two paragraphs describe the way the Desktop is 
displayed on your Fedora Core 9 Installation?

Thank you very much,

William