removing duplicate rows

Hi,
Please give the DML to SELECT the rows avoiding the duplicate rows. Since there is a text column in the table, I couldn't use aggreate function, group by (OR) DISTINCT for processing.
Table :
create table test(col1 int, col2 text)
go
insert into test values(1, 'abc')
go
insert into test values(2, 'abc')
go
insert into test values(2, 'abc')
go
insert into test values(4, 'dbc')
go
Please advise,
Thanks,
Smithanot very efficient - and prone to possible truncation of col2 -

select distinct col1, cast(col2 as varchar(8000)) from test|||Thanks. I need the output to be with the same datatype, since I need to create temp tables using the selected data(using SELECT INTO)|||again not very efficient:

select temp.col1, cast(temp.newcol2 as text) col2
into newtable
from
(select distinct col1, cast(col2 as varchar(8000)) newcol2 from test) temp