Please handle such stuff on your own as long as it's not part of Debian, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=388525
Thanks, I was aware, but wrong, "swapoff -a" is part of Debian. (The wish-list item is a boot cheatcode which grml CD-ROM offers despite non-official status.)
The "mobile hard drive" or "mobile flash stick" scenarios benefit from identical capabilities as CD-ROM. Different behaviors are confusing. If we wanted exact Debian, we would install it. What we want is grml CD-ROM behavior :-).
The "swapoff -a" command works the same from CD or USB. The grml CD hunts down and mounts all swap by default. Whether a user wants swap on or off is not predictable, so the option would help. I sometimes even forget when swap is on and then kick myself for not turning it off at login.
Thanks,
M