Installing on Mandrake?

[Ryan Grange]

I've noticed the definite Debian slant in all the installation instructions.  
I think I'm close to having this system configured to run on a Mandrake 
system, but could use guidance in determining what I may be missing and what 
RPMs might have accomplished what I ended up using tarballs to acieve.  
(After all the whole point behind rpms and debs is ease of maintainence.  If 
I wanted tarballs, I would have kept my Gentoo install to try this on.)