diff --git a/plugins/provisioners/salt/bootstrap-salt.sh b/plugins/provisioners/salt/bootstrap-salt.sh
index 9d8cd0d31..082ec0101 100755
--- a/plugins/provisioners/salt/bootstrap-salt.sh
+++ b/plugins/provisioners/salt/bootstrap-salt.sh
@@ -2,11 +2,15 @@
 
 # We just download the bootstrap script by default and execute that.
 if [ -x /usr/bin/fetch ]; then
-    /usr/bin/fetch -o - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/saltstack/salt-bootstrap/stable/bootstrap-salt.sh | sh -s -- "$@"
+    /usr/bin/fetch -o bootstrap-salt.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/saltstack/salt-bootstrap/stable/bootstrap-salt.sh
 elif [ -x /usr/bin/curl ]; then
-    /usr/bin/curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/saltstack/salt-bootstrap/stable/bootstrap-salt.sh | sh -s -- "$@"
+    /usr/bin/curl -L -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/saltstack/salt-bootstrap/stable/bootstrap-salt.sh
 else
-    python \
-        -c 'import urllib; print urllib.urlopen("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/saltstack/salt-bootstrap/stable/bootstrap-salt.sh").read()' \
-        | sh -s -- "$@"
+    python -c 'import urllib; urllib.urlretrieve("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/saltstack/salt-bootstrap/stable/bootstrap-salt.sh", "bootstrap-salt.sh")'
+fi
+
+if [ -e bootstrap-salt.sh ]; then
+  sh bootstrap-salt.sh "$@"
+else
+  exit 1
 fi