Downloaded ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-i386.iso, and burnt a CD.

To install on a new hard-drive, selected "Something Else" at the first
"Installation type" dialogue.

At the subsequent "Installation type" dialogue, the new drive was
detected, and came up first on the menu of drives, already highlighted.

Clicking "Install Now" gave:

"No root filesystem is defined. Please correct this from the
partitioning menu"

Clicking "New Partition Table ..." gave:

"Create new empty partition table on this device?", with options of
"Go Back" or "Continue".

The latter took a few moments, but did not progress to another dialogue.
That left no option but to again click "Install Now", which promptly
reiterated the "No root filesystem" gripe.

Lacking any other buttons to click on that dialogue, I find myself in
an endless loop. Is there any GUI way forward, or is it necessary to
hack at the disk with parted and mkfs before an install attempt now?
I recall partitioning drives during GUI installation on prior
occasions (Ubuntu 5.10, 7.10, 10.04), so what can I have missed this
time?

It's too late in the day to try coffee. I'll have yet another go after
posting - that sometimes works.

Erik

-- 
My folks came to the US as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born
in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien. (Leonard Nimoy)
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