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francis yeung wrote:
I will be answering this exact question
in the next week or so...
teh quick answer is yes..
that is, once you have made the bootroms cope with it..

I'll be needig to do exactly this in production..
stay tuned..
(this is -current)

> 
> Greetings,
> 
>         I am currently running COMCONSOLE which takes up
>         my COM1 port.
> 
>         Is there a way that I can run without
>         any console port i.e. no VGA or COM1 port and redirect
>         the console output to a file so that I can login from
>         another workstation remotely using tail -f "console file".
> 
>         Thank you for your help.
> 
>         Francis