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I'm training for the GMAT, I bought a few books with DVDs, however the DVDs only work in Windows. There are no GMAT DVDs for other OSes. How can I do? :'(
Distribution: RHEL/CentOS/SL 5 i386 and x86_64 pata for IDE in use
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Do not know as I have never used wine. I have used VMWare and VirtualBox both will work just fine. Virtual box can be configured to have a 'dual desktop' and VMware-server is free(register for serial number) for download also;
First, what is on the disk can you describe the contents ? Are there a bunch of *.exe files ? Or an index.html ? Is it browser based, flash based, just a window$ program ?
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