virtualbox.org

I've installed Virtualbox on my Mac Mini (because being a Windows person and new to a MAC I have old Windows things I need to run) and I have tried to install Windows 2000. I just go round in circles. Win2k keeps going back to the setup (not the very start) asking for the PC name, regional settings etc. Is it me or is this broken? I have accepted all the default answer during setup.
If it is me, what am I doing wrong please?

Did you remove the CD from the drive?

yes i tried that and it told me to put it back in. the mac has no eject button, which makes this difficult for a windows user!

Change the boot order.

how do i do that please?
i reinstalled. all goes fine thru 2000's setup wizard, regional, time zone, workgroup, installing components, then suddenly a virtualbox splash screen and back to the start of the graphical setup wizard. it is not going right back to a cd boot setup.

This sounds more like a failed install instead of user error. Post the guests log file (as an attachment)
In the VirtualBox main manager click machine at the top and then show log. Click save and post as an attachment

These problems are all caused by a bug in the hard disk driver of Windows 2000. After issuing a
hard disk request, there is a race condition in the Windows driver code which leads to corruption
if the operation completes too fast, i.e. the hardware interrupt from the IDE controller arrives
too soon. With physical hardware, there is a guaranteed delay in most systems so the problem
is usually hidden there (however it should be possible to reproduce it on physical hardware as
well). In a virtual environment, it is possible for the operation to be done immediately (especially
on very fast systems with multiple CPUs) and the interrupt is signaled sooner than on a physical
system. The solution is to introduce an artificial delay before delivering such interrupts. This
delay can be configured for a VM using the following command:

VBoxManage setextradata "VM name" "VBoxInternal/Devices/piix3ide/0/Config/IRQDelay" 1

This sets the delay to one millisecond. In case this doesn’t help, increase it to a value between
1 and 5 milliseconds. Please note that this slows down disk performance. After installation, you
should be able to remove the key (or set it to 0).