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?
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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.
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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.