use parallels desktop, vmware, wine, crossover or whatever 1 - when you launch mathematica click on the other ways to activate button along the bottom left of the window 2 - click on offline activation 3 - copy the mathid you see at the end of the mathematica window's step 1 text into the keygen 4 - paste the mathid into the top box in the keygen and click the generate button 5 - copy the activation text from the left box in the keygen into the activation field in mathematica 5 - copy the password text from the right box in the keygen into the password field in mathematica 6 - click on the activate button in mathematica. 7 - if something goes wrong, repeat 1-6 steps until it's done