In message <Pine.GSO.4.58.0403031120530.16324@fs3.liv.ac.uk>, "Dr R.S. Brooks" 
writes:
>Following the release of 1.6.2, will there be an updated set of
>binary package ISOs for i386?  And if so, when are they likely
>to appear?
>

They are there:

ftp> ls i386*
229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||57500|)
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'.
-rw-r--r--  1 1237  netbsd   147816448 Mar  1 19:28 i386cd.iso
-rw-r--r--  1 1127  hubertf  690257920 Mar  1 05:53 i386pkg.iso
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> pwd
257 "/pub/NetBSD/iso/1.6.2" is the current directory.

This is on ftp.netbsd.org

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb