mount remotely?
We were too poor to travel in the 1990's, so the only reason for us to show up physically at the server was if we crashed it. If we could remote into it, the 38Kbps was good enough to remotely mount a file system and run our installations. (And yes, it could take hours...) Though it was weird mounting a CD the first few times back then. Could be there was some sort of DRM that didn't let those CDs to be mounted.