Too many drivers!!! help me organize!!! plz help!

[Jppossenti]

I work at a computer store, and the amount of CD's and drivers for every motherboard, video card, sound card, modems, and all those goodies is getting out of hand. I need to keep all of these drivers because people come in with hardware and they dont have the drivers, and they dont want to buy a new piece. My question is.. since i have so many drivers and cd's, is there any software that can run on linux or something that can let me access all of them from a web browser neatly organized into categories and such?
say i format a computer and need to download the drivers for the video card for example, i would go to the servers IP.. say 192.168.0.6 or something and there would be a whole bunch of options to choose from.. video, sound, lan, service packs.
is this possible? anyone heard of something like this? or what do you guys recommend? I guess what im looking for is something like in the Compaq, Dell, Hp, and all of those companies that you go to their support site and you pick the categorie, then go more into detail as to the model and then the version of windows.

thanks in advance.

 

[MrChad]

I don't know of any out-of-the-box software to do this, but you could easily write a database-driven website that includes driver downloads.

I'm not sure if manufacturers allow you to redistribute drivers without their permission (on a website). Anyone else know if this is an issue?

 

[Jppossenti]

and how would i go about doing the database driven site?
it cant be that hard cant it?
basic mysql or something?
more info on this please. im really interested in doing it.
and i woudnt really be distributing this to the public, just within the LAN here at work, but maybe maybe in the future ill co locate it, in order for the customers to download them.

 

[MrChad]

No, it's not too hard. You could use MySQL as the database and PHP to generate the website. I'm not sure what experience you have with database design or web programming. It's not too hard to learn, and there are lots of resources online.

 

[Jppossenti]

i have some experience in the web department, none really at all in mysql. php like a year ago i somewhat looked at it.