Can I prevent Mist downloading the blockchain?

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I am using Mist Browser on a laptop at IP = .12 on the local network. Elsewhere on IP = 25, I have an RPi running a node from http://parity.io/. The command is

/usr/bin/parity --warp --cache 256  --public-node

I noticed that the Parity client has a

/usr/bin/parity --geth

option which I am not using, but as I understand it, this node supposedly implements the Ethereum protocol, so I should be able to tell my local Mist that the RPi has the blockchain.

In case it's any help, the ONLY open port is 22 (no RPC), and no JSON-RPC or config.toml anywhere. Neither is there any chaindata directory.

$ find . -name chaindata -print

What I really want is to mount the ~/.ethereum/geth/chaindata from the RPi so that block data (such as) .ethereum/geth/chaindata/000186.ldb are available on the laptop as Mist starts, so that Mist won't download the whole blockchain again.

I'll probably need to use the Go client because the --geth mode seems to produce the same directory structure on the RPi. The Parity.io node is written in Rust, and that might explain why I can't find the files I was looking for.

Has anyone tried this, or can anyone tell me if they've managed to start Mist so that it "borrows" the blockchain mounted from the local LAN?

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Saurabh Mukhekar On

we actually tried on IBM Blochain platform but we also failed to start Mist