Just did a bit of Googling, and I found this link;
http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/nvidiainst.html
Looks to be a pretty good guide to installing the drivers on your distro. The guy has even made the page so that it is viewable with one of the text-mode web-browsers, like lynx, so you can read it without having X running ;-)
Cambo