How do I see all text in console?
 

I feel I should know this but I can't seem to find the answer -
After typing commands in a console which return a lot of text, I am only able to scroll so far up and can't get to the beginning of the text.
What is the correct way to do this?

use a pager, there are 2 installed usually

1) "more" - really only there for compatibility reasons, you can only scroll down

2) "less" - more or less a joke on "more"s behalf, this one can scroll up and down.

example
just press 'q' to quit, in more, if you get to the end,it exits for you

terminals and consoles have a limit to the number of lines that they save. i don't know what the default is, and it's almost certainly different for every terminal. anyway, i use aterm, and i know that the option is like this:

aterm -sl 4000

if you want to be able to scroll through the last 4000 lines of output.