[LAU] Linuxaudio from live usb

[rosea.grammostola]

On 04/11/2013 11:15 AM, Florian Paul Schmidt wrote:
> On 04/11/2013 10:50 AM, rosea.grammostola wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is it possible to boot an linuxaudio distro from live usb and work
>> with JACK, Ardour etc.? How good or bad will the performance be? For
>> example for giving a workshop about Linuxaudio on Windows computers?
>>
>
> Totally possible. The perfomance will vary with the tasks you are doing.
> Recording 32 tracks of 48000hz audio in ardour to a USB thumbdrive might
> not work so well. Running softsynths and some other apps that do not
> rely heavily on disk streaming should work fine..
>
> You might also want to consider to INSTALL a linux distro to the USB
> stick instead of just booting some live image. This way you can setup
> stuff..

Imagine that the teaching room with windows computers should be left as 
it was. Installing on usb needs changes in the bootmenu/grub right, so 
you get some sort of dualboot. How easy and risky is it to undo that?

\r