Possible to install from CD using distutils?

[Simon Wittber (Maptek)]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>"Simon Wittber (Maptek)" <Simon.Wittber at perth.maptek.com.au> writes:
>
>>Try this command. It will let you write to a CD drive.
>> 
>>mount -o rw /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
>
>Did you try this? You can't mount a cdrom rw - the hardware just does not support writing to a CD-*ROM* (Read-Only Memory).

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