I've discovered that you don't even need to burn a CD, unless you want to backup your AO files.
If you have a friend or so who has AO on the PC, ask them to borrow it. Do a full install on your PC, and then manually copy all the files that end in ".ddv" into your Abe's Oddysee directory. Then you have the whole game on your HD.
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This works with version 1.0 anyway.
Dunno if it works with AE though.