diff --git a/plugins/provisioners/salt/bootstrap-salt.sh b/plugins/provisioners/salt/bootstrap-salt.sh
index 44d7b3989..0e63bc800 100755
--- a/plugins/provisioners/salt/bootstrap-salt.sh
+++ b/plugins/provisioners/salt/bootstrap-salt.sh
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ cd `mktemp -d`
 if [ -x /usr/bin/fetch ]; then
     /usr/bin/fetch -o bootstrap-salt.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/saltstack/salt-bootstrap/stable/bootstrap-salt.sh
 elif [ -x /usr/bin/curl ]; then
-    /usr/bin/curl -L -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/saltstack/salt-bootstrap/stable/bootstrap-salt.sh
+    /usr/bin/curl --silent --show-error -L -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/saltstack/salt-bootstrap/stable/bootstrap-salt.sh
 elif [ -x /usr/bin/wget ]; then
     /usr/bin/wget -O bootstrap-salt.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/saltstack/salt-bootstrap/stable/bootstrap-salt.sh
 else