Nice and clean Fedora desktop GoingEasy! :)

It shouldn't take that long to copy that amount of data. Are you sure the hard disck is correctly connected and/or configured?

What does "iotop" tell you?

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kill -USR1 $ddPROCESS

To check the progress of the dd command

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Why wouldn't it be?

One long beep and then three beeps in a row? It's not detecting correctly your ram modules. try placing just one and see if it boots

1- Create a file php.conf with this content:
#
# PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language which attempts to make it
# easy for developers to write dynamically generated webpages.
#
<IfModule prefork.c>
LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so
</IfModule>
<IfModule worker.c>
LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5-zts.so
</IfModule>

#
# Cause the PHP interpreter to handle files with a .php extension.
#
AddHandler php5-script .php
AddType text/html .php

#
# Add index.php to the list of files that will be served as directory
# indexes.
#
DirectoryIndex index.php

#
# Uncomment the following line to allow PHP to pretty-print .phps
# files as PHP source code:
#
#AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

2- Then make sure there's a rule that includes your newcly created config file:
Include route/to/file.conf

3- Restart your apache server
4- Enjoy!