diff --git a/deploy/proxmox-install.sh b/deploy/proxmox-install.sh
index 8b09b71..78cb332 100644
--- a/deploy/proxmox-install.sh
+++ b/deploy/proxmox-install.sh
@@ -39,9 +39,14 @@ tmp="$(mktemp -d)"
 trap 'rm -rf "${tmp}"' EXIT
 
 echo "==> fetching bundle (${VETTING_VERSION}) from ${BUNDLE_URL}"
-curl -fsSL "${BUNDLE_URL}" -o "${tmp}/vetting-bundle.tar.gz"
+# --progress-bar (not -s) so the operator sees a live indicator —
+# bundles are ~30 MB and the registry can be slow on a cold run, and
+# a silent 5 s has tricked us into Ctrl-C'ing mid-download before.
+# -f keeps fail-on-HTTP-error; -L still follows redirects.
+curl -fL --progress-bar "${BUNDLE_URL}" -o "${tmp}/vetting-bundle.tar.gz"
 
-echo "==> extracting"
+bundle_size="$(du -h "${tmp}/vetting-bundle.tar.gz" | cut -f1)"
+echo "==> extracting (${bundle_size})"
 tar -C "${tmp}" -xzf "${tmp}/vetting-bundle.tar.gz"
 
 # Bundle extracts to vetting-bundle-<sha>/; glob-match the single