I need a program to burn a .img file, I have k3b, and it won't accept it, neither will Brasero. I'm running Sabayon 4.0 r1 Gnome. All suggestions are appreciated. Thanks.

Also, what's your favorite archiving tool?

I Googled using ".img file" and concluded there is a solution. No time at the moment to figure it out.

archiving? How about TAR?

Well the only way I do things like that since I deal mainly with CLI and rarely with actually burning CDs within linux... would be...

dd of=/dev/cdrom if={image file location}

but not certain if dd would actually work that way or if any options might be needed. It's the only suggestion I got I am afraid =/.

What is a .img file??? How do you create it? Normally, CD/DVD images are .ISO's....

Try mounting the image file as root:
# mount -t iso9660 -o loop ./my.img /mnt
If you know it is not an ISO file, then replace the file type (iso9660) with some valid param.
If its mounted, have a look at /mnt (or wherever it was mounted) and see if it's valid.
From that point on you can use k3b for burning by writing out the contents of /mnt (or wherever it was mounted) to a disk.

Try mounting the image file as root:
# mount -t iso9660 -o loop ./my.img /mnt
If you know it is not an ISO file, then replace the file type (iso9660) with some valid param.
If its mounted, have a look at /mnt (or wherever it was mounted) and see if it's valid.
From that point on you can use k3b for burning by writing out the contents of /mnt (or wherever it was mounted) to a disk.

Debian

An .img extention as noted doesn't supply a lot of information on what the file is. You could use "file <filename.img>" to possibly learn what the file is. It probably stands for "image" but that could be a hard drive image, a euphemism for .iso or some proprietary format that is possibly compressed or excludes unused filesystem space (such as a norton ghost disk image).

mounting is a very good option. You can mount to the cdrom device in case an application expects it here. Usually cdrom device is /dev/hdc.

http://linuxreviews.org/howtos/cdrecording/

ISO CD images can be burned to CDs by using the program cdrecord. You can use it like this with a SCSI burner:

cdrecord -v speed=XX dev=0,Y,0 -data cd_image.iso

XX sets the speed, dev=0,Y,0 is the burners (SCSI) ID. Run cdrecord -scanbus to view your drive(s) and their ID(s)

For IDE CD burners (most likely what you got) you must use -dev ATAPI:/ and add the link to your device:

cdrecord -dev ATAPI:/dev/hdc -data cd_image.iso

It is also possible to use a numbered ID when using IDE/ATAPI: cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 Run cdrecord dev=ATAPI -scanbus to find the valid IDs.

I got it to work, I installed "udftools". "udf" stands for Universal Disk File, or Format, not sure, but it works through K3b now, I just have to take off the file filter and set it from .iso to "all files", and select the .img, and it deals with it without any problems. But a.img file is a disk image, I don't know if it's just rarely used or obsolete, but I got one. I think it might even be a floppy image. But it works easily, I just had to get udftools out of entropy. Thanks for all the help though, I really appreciate it.

No problem, and thanks for posting the solution.

last time I made a boot cd, I used mkisofs...

If there is a Linux Port for Nero - I think you could use that to burn your IMG file.


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