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)