fresh installation is hosed...

8 msg	Forwarding environment questions
1 msg	BIND 9.5 libxml dependecy
1 msg	how to check if bind is compliled with the dlz ...
4 msg	bind crash with max-cache-size
1 msg	BIND 9.5 stats
4 msg	dnssec-keygen + Bind 9.4.2 RC2
2 msg	Blackhole for incoming queries only
2 msg	Change nameserver's ips
2 msg	Need info about dns client
2 msg	High processor windows 2003 64 bit
2 msg	turn off notifies for internal view?
10 msg	unable to get a nslookup on windows client
2 msg	why can't resolved
3 msg	Can't resolve some domians

fresh installation is hosed...
\ aklist_bind (16 Nov 2007)
. \ Chris Buxton (16 Nov 2007)
. \ Joseph S D Yao (16 Nov 2007)
. \ Mark Andrews (17 Nov 2007)

3 msg	Enable logging for a single zone in BIND 8.2.3?
5 msg	after delegation
1 msg	dns_rdata_fromtext: buffer-0xb7f1ab44:1: near e...
6 msg	Bind 8.4.7-P1 on Solaris 8
2 msg	Re: Resend: BIND 9.4.2 Release Candidate 2 is n...

Subject:	fresh installation is hosed...
Group:	Bind-users
From:	aklist_bind
Date:	16 Nov 2007

Hi All: I was attempting to build a new box to run Bind on...I did the
following:

fresh install of FreeBSD 6.2
installed openssl-0.9.8g
installed bind-9.4.1-P1 with:
./configure --prefix=/usr
--sysconfdir=/etc/namedb
--mandir=/usr/share/man
--localstatedir=/var
--disable-threads
--with-openssl=/usr

...and everything was working...then I replaced named.conf with the
named.conf from my existing server, and all hell broke loose! <g>

After much massaging of named.conf, I'm still stuck...when I try to start it
with /usr/sbin/named (with or without switches) my error log says:

Nov 16 15:41:14 ns1 named[38279]: starting BIND 9.4.1-P1 -u root -c
/etc/namedb/
named.conf -t /var/named/
Nov 16 15:41:14 ns1 named[38279]: could not configure root hints from
'db.cache'
: file not found
Nov 16 15:41:14 ns1 named[38279]: loading configuration: file not found
Nov 16 15:41:14 ns1 named[38279]: exiting (due to fatal error)

Nov 16 15:48:07 ns1 named[48697]: starting BIND 9.4.1-P1
Nov 16 15:48:07 ns1 named[48697]: could not configure root hints from
'db.cache'
: file not found
Nov 16 15:48:07 ns1 named[48697]: loading configuration: file not found
Nov 16 15:48:07 ns1 named[48697]: exiting (due to fatal error)

Given that this is a fresh install, I don't care about rolling back and
starting over, if that's what I need to do. Or is this a simple
pathing/permissions issue?

Any insights would be appreciated.