[SOLVED :)]How do I record error messages to post to the forum?

Question

My setup:
    Win 7 running Arch on VBox
    Arch networking is set up and working
    Nothing installed except for vim, links, + many packages included at install
Issue:
   Having trouble installing xorg-server (etc, stuff needed for GUI)
So I have all these error messages, and I would like to post them to the forum and they're too long to type.  Supposing I didn't just want to summarize or tell you the gist of the message, how would I copy the whole thing and post it to these forums.  I'm sure there are many ways, so let's hear some!
I can already redirect to file with:
pacman -S <package list> > errors.txt 2>&1
How would I grab that data from my VBox install and send it either from Arch or from Win7?
*Edit*: I /am/ able to install some things with pacman -S <package>  (like vim).
Last edited by enjoysmath (2012-05-15 13:18:55)

Answer 1

ngoonee wrote:
enjoysmath wrote:To do a shared folder I had to install Guest Additions, and so on (an all day project for me).
You MAY want to consider whether you have enough time to play around with Arch Linux, in that case.
I have.  I've tried other distros and each one of them had problems.  So to solve my problems, I'm going to need to understand linux more.  For that reason, I chose Arch.  And it was recommended by an IRC friend who is doing similar code writing as me, and if we work on this project together we can help each other out with our computer issues.  E.g. If I'm on win 7 and he's on Arch, I have some weird issue with Visual D, and all he can say is good luck!  Once I've got my setup working, we can help each other since we'll both be running into the same bugs.   Another reason is speed, basic linux with minimal crap pre-installed seems to run way faster in VBox.  I'm in AZ, where the temperature really does affect CPU temp.
In learning linux, there is a healthy trade off between learning every detail about one thing and just skimming over and going back to it later.  I am now doing more of the latter so that I can have just the basics up and running, X-windows, sound, networking, and so on...  So when I see a sed command, I think 'yeah it would be worth it to learn how to use sed,'  but if I did nothing but learning sed for the next week, I would not meet certain idealistic goals I have for myself.  And if I take too long, on one thing, how do I know that what I am doing is the smart way to do it?  I need the bigger picture for that.  So I need to carefully manage what little time I have on Earth, and use all I know, all my intuition to make the right decision at each step, and sometimes that decision is either: try something else, get help from someone else, understand something more, sleep on it.  I lost my point somewhere in there.  But yeah, I am an able to learn, in my own way, what I want, and when I want to.  When the time comes for me to teach, I will understand my pupils, and encourage them, knowing each one is relatively unique in their goals and plans for Arch or w/e I'm teaching them.