from "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>:

> One of the instructions in UPDATING explicitly states that you need a
> new assembler to build.

> In general, I would recommend using build.sh and not trying to update
> by hand.

> .pm

Does that mean I can't compile a 1.6 kernel using NetBSD 1.5.2 and what comes
with it?  I want to see if 1.6 will be runnable before installing.  I suppose
I could download the generic and installation kernels and run DOSBOOT on them,
one at a time, as I did with 1.5.3rc2.