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I have an .img file sizing about 600 MiB. When I wanted to burn this file to a CD (not a DVD), I could not find any program capable of doing so. I tried K3b, Brasero, and AcetoneISO. Nothing was able to burn the .img file.

Then i tried to convert it to an .iso with AcetoneISO, but it said i would lose important tracks (multitrack disc). The outcome was a file of 160 MiB or so, so I figured this was no solution either.

I do not want to write the .img image to a USB stick, but only burn it to a CD. In the case that such an .img image is from a bootable CD, I cannot simply dump its contents to a folder by copying and then burn that folder to the CD-R after mounting it. Doing that would fail to produce a bootable CD.

Is there any program in Ubuntu's repositories that can do this? Is there another way to convert the file?

This is not a duplicate of How to burn or mount an ISO file? because I am asking how to burn an .img image to CD-R or CD-RW and not an .iso. I am not able to find any CD-R software for burning .img image files to a disc.

The reason this is not a duplicate is that I am asking for a method for how to burn an .img (not an .iso, nor a .bin/.cue) image to a CD-R in Linux. The linked question does not appear to answer this. I am unable to find any burner in the repos in Xubuntu that does this. AcetoneISO does mount the image, but that is not what I want, since it is a multi-track .img (all tracks in one .img file). I also want to burn it to a CD-R so that it remains bootable. K3b and other burners do not accept any .img file for burning.

Converting it to an .iso with AcetoneISO or any other program makes it lose the additional tracks beyond track 1 and possibly also to lose the bootable aspect.

Eliah Kagan
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Bas Lamerichs
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  • no i updated the question – Bas Lamerichs Nov 24 '19 at 17:19
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    There should be no difference between burning a real .iso and some other kind of image file. Try:

    xorriso -as cdrecord -v dev=/dev/sr0 blank=as_needed your_image_file.whatever

    (With your file name instead of "your_image_file.whatever".)

     – Thomas Schmitt Nov 25 '19 at 08:25
  • Have you tried directly burning the .img file to CD-RW? What was the result? – Melebius Nov 27 '19 at 12:22
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    trying to burn it with k3d - image not recognised or something like it as with all other burners. renaming it to iso or bin does not fix this - still the same error message because no burn applications i can find actually CAN burn a .IMG file. the disks app (gnome) can make a .IMG of a cd-r but not burn it. having a method to convert the multitrack .IMG file to a multitrack BIN/CUE would also solve the problem i guess since k3b can burn those. cd-rw gives the same result by the way. – Bas Lamerichs Nov 27 '19 at 16:28

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