I download red hat 8.0 iso file from the red hat official website I am presently running linux mint, I want to run red hat but when I open the iso file there is a plethora of file I don't know which one is the executable file to get started. Can you please help me.
Thank You
Vinne

If you've already installed Mint, then I'm confused as to why you can't install Red Hat. You ALSO downloaded an ISO file for Mint, then installed it....Red Hat is no different. You burn the ISO image to a USB drive/CD/DVD, and boot from it...follow the instructions on screen to install.

Also, WHY are you using RHEL 8?? If you're not paying for it, there's no point, since you won't get updates/patches/fixes, and won't have support. Load CentOS instead, but even then the question is why??? Distros such as those are really meant for servers, so support for wifi/sound/bluetooth could be problematic.

I can see wanting to install it as a VM to become/stay familiar with it. (I can't recall seeing any job ads looking for people with Mint experience.)

This is the Newbie forum, after all.

Right, but aside from a few differences, if you know Linux Mint, you can most probably work with RHEL. There just isn't a reason to do this, since most of the RHEL only stuff isn't where you're going to spend most of your time, and when you do you reference the docs. An admin will spend most of the time troubleshooting, monitoring, and doing basic system housekeeping.

And past that, how could the OP even manage to load Mint, if they weren't already familiar with using an ISO image that was downloaded??

Sorry I did not make myself clear I want to get rid of linux mint and install red hat in place of it, the problem I am having is 1st. I am new at this 2nd mint does not recognize the red hat iso file 3rd when I open the red hat iso file I don't know were to start there are so many files and I can not find the executable file.I installed mint from a windows laptop using Rufus. I do not know how to install red hat on a Linux machine
Regards
Vinne A

You put the iso image on a thumb drive or cdrom and boot from it. It's nothing to do with what's on the hard drive already.
When you do that, one of the options will be to install it.

But, TB0ne is correct, RH8 will require a subscription to get support. Using CentOS will avoid that...but it doesn't look like CentOS has released version 8 yet. There's always a lag between the RedHat releases and the CentOS releases. You could get started for free if you used CentOS 7.6 (the current download version)

He's also correct that there are some challenges running RedHat on a desktop.
I do that, but I also administer a headless CentOS production server and am very comfortable just doing things at the command line, so when I decided to learn more about the Linux GUI, I stayed with the flavor of Linus I'm familiar with.

Thank you for taking the time to help me, with this situation I will try CentOS 7.6. Will let you all know how things work out.

We understand exactly what you want to do. Again, RHEL is *NOT* a good choice, unless you are going to PAY for it. So again...**WHY** do you want to load RHEL??

And putting "how to install rhel 8" into Google pulls up instructions from Red Hat's website, with pictures:
https://developers.redhat.com/rhel8/install-rhel8/

As with any distro of Linux (and Windows and Mac too), installation instructions are on their websites. Helps to read them first.

TBOne,.

The reason I wanted to install Red Hat is since I started back to college to get my degree in Computer Engineering one of the courses focused on Linux and how to program and trouble shoot in this language. I liked what I was learning and my Professor suggested that Red Hat would be a good platform for me to down load and work with to make me more familiar with Linux, so that is why I was trying to down load Red Hat. Hope that help clarify things. Again thanks for your interest and help.
Vinne

Your professor is woefully misinformed, if they suggested RHEL. Not only might you have hardware problems on a consumer device (most servers don't have wifi/bluetooth/sound or even a VIDEO CARD these days), but you won't get bugfixes or patches.

RHEL is a supported, PAY FOR distro. You use it when you need to have someone to call about a production server being down. Again, Linux is Linux....99% of what you have on Linux Mint is nearly IDENTICAL to what you have on RHEL, save for some distro-specific commands, and more server-related commands. That's it. If your goal is to get experience with Linux, then Mint is your best first step.

Thanks TBOne for your helping me avert disaster and possible crashing my system.

I download drivers for my printer I unzipped it and ran the bash command and got this error message: could not find any suitable frontend for your system. Can someone tell how to install zipped drivers.

thanks

You need to read the LQ Rules and the "Question Guidelines"....open a new thread for a new question, and provide actual details.

You don't tell us what brand/model of printer, how it's connected, where you got the drivers, what 'bash command' you ran, etc., on what version/distro of Linux.