diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 71164f7ed4..9d4cbd4285 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -9,14 +9,20 @@ intend to use to ensure alignment.
 
 ## Download Binaries and Docker Images
 
-The [`scripts/bootstrap.sh`](https://github.com/hyperledger/fabric-samples/blob/release-1.3/scripts/bootstrap.sh)
+The `scripts/bootstrap.sh` (available in the fabric repository)
 script will preload all of the requisite docker
 images for Hyperledger Fabric and tag them with the 'latest' tag. Optionally,
 specify a version for fabric, fabric-ca and thirdparty images. Default versions
-are 1.4.0, 1.4.0 and 0.4.14 respectively.
+are 1.4.1, 1.4.1 and 0.4.15 respectively.
+
 
 ```bash
-./scripts/bootstrap.sh [version] [ca version] [thirdparty_version]
+# Fetch bootstrap.sh from fabric repository using
+curl -sS https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hyperledger/fabric/master/scripts/bootstrap.sh -o ./scripts/bootstrap.sh
+# Change file mode to executable
+chmod +x ./scripts/bootstrap.sh
+# Download binaries and docker images (bypass fabric-samples repo clone)
+./scripts/bootstrap.sh [version] [ca version] [thirdparty_version] -s
 ```
 
 ### Continuous Integration
diff --git a/scripts/bootstrap.sh b/scripts/bootstrap.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 5526213178..0000000000
--- a/scripts/bootstrap.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,220 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-#
-# Copyright IBM Corp. All Rights Reserved.
-#
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-#
-
-# if version not passed in, default to latest released version
-export VERSION=1.4.0
-# if ca version not passed in, default to latest released version
-export CA_VERSION=$VERSION
-# current version of thirdparty images (couchdb, kafka and zookeeper) released
-export THIRDPARTY_IMAGE_VERSION=0.4.14
-export ARCH=$(echo "$(uname -s|tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'|sed 's/mingw64_nt.*/windows/')-$(uname -m | sed 's/x86_64/amd64/g')")
-export MARCH=$(uname -m)
-
-# ensure we're in the fabric-samples directory
-dir=`basename $PWD`
-if [ "${dir}" == "scripts" ]; then
-        cd ..
-fi
-
-dir=`basename $PWD`
-if [ "${dir}" != "fabric-samples" ]; then
-	echo "You should run this script from the fabric-samples root directory."
-	exit 1
-fi
-
-printHelp() {
-  echo "Usage: bootstrap.sh [<version>] [<ca_version>] [<thirdparty_version>][-d -b]"
-  echo
-  echo "-d - bypass docker image download"
-  echo "-b - bypass download of platform-specific binaries"
-  echo
-  echo "e.g. bootstrap.sh 1.4.0 1.4.0 0.4.14"
-  echo "would download docker images and binaries for version 1.4.0 (fabric) 1.4.0 (fabric-ca) 0.4.14 (thirdparty)"
-}
-
-dockerFabricPull() {
-  local FABRIC_TAG=$1
-  for IMAGES in peer orderer ccenv tools; do
-      echo "==> FABRIC IMAGE: $IMAGES"
-      echo
-      docker pull hyperledger/fabric-$IMAGES:$FABRIC_TAG
-      docker tag hyperledger/fabric-$IMAGES:$FABRIC_TAG hyperledger/fabric-$IMAGES
-  done
-}
-
-dockerThirdPartyImagesPull() {
-  local THIRDPARTY_TAG=$1
-  for IMAGES in couchdb kafka zookeeper; do
-      echo "==> THIRDPARTY DOCKER IMAGE: $IMAGES"
-      echo
-      docker pull hyperledger/fabric-$IMAGES:$THIRDPARTY_TAG
-      docker tag hyperledger/fabric-$IMAGES:$THIRDPARTY_TAG hyperledger/fabric-$IMAGES
-  done
-}
-
-dockerCaPull() {
-      local CA_TAG=$1
-      echo "==> FABRIC CA IMAGE"
-      echo
-      docker pull hyperledger/fabric-ca:$CA_TAG
-      docker tag hyperledger/fabric-ca:$CA_TAG hyperledger/fabric-ca
-}
-
-# Incrementally downloads the .tar.gz file locally first, only decompressing it
-# after the download is complete. This is slower than binaryDownload() but
-# allows the download to be resumed.
-binaryIncrementalDownload() {
-      local BINARY_FILE=$1
-      local URL=$2
-      curl -f -s -C - ${URL} -o ${BINARY_FILE} || rc=$?
-      # Due to limitations in the current Nexus repo:
-      # curl returns 33 when there's a resume attempt with no more bytes to download
-      # curl returns 2 after finishing a resumed download
-      # with -f curl returns 22 on a 404
-      if [ "$rc" = 22 ]; then
-	  # looks like the requested file doesn't actually exist so stop here
-	  return 22
-      fi
-      if [ -z "$rc" ] || [ $rc -eq 33 ] || [ $rc -eq 2 ]; then
-          # The checksum validates that RC 33 or 2 are not real failures
-          echo "==> File downloaded. Verifying the md5sum..."
-          localMd5sum=$(md5sum ${BINARY_FILE} | awk '{print $1}')
-          remoteMd5sum=$(curl -s ${URL}.md5)
-          if [ "$localMd5sum" == "$remoteMd5sum" ]; then
-              echo "==> Extracting ${BINARY_FILE}..."
-              tar xzf ./${BINARY_FILE} --overwrite
-	      echo "==> Done."
-              rm -f ${BINARY_FILE} ${BINARY_FILE}.md5
-          else
-              echo "Download failed: the local md5sum is different from the remote md5sum. Please try again."
-              rm -f ${BINARY_FILE} ${BINARY_FILE}.md5
-              exit 1
-          fi
-      else
-          echo "Failure downloading binaries (curl RC=$rc). Please try again and the download will resume from where it stopped."
-          exit 1
-      fi
-}
-
-# This will attempt to download the .tar.gz all at once, but will trigger the
-# binaryIncrementalDownload() function upon a failure, allowing for resume
-# if there are network failures.
-binaryDownload() {
-      local BINARY_FILE=$1
-      local URL=$2
-      echo "===> Downloading: " ${URL}
-      # Check if a previous failure occurred and the file was partially downloaded
-      if [ -e ${BINARY_FILE} ]; then
-          echo "==> Partial binary file found. Resuming download..."
-          binaryIncrementalDownload ${BINARY_FILE} ${URL}
-      else
-          curl ${URL} | tar xz || rc=$?
-          if [ ! -z "$rc" ]; then
-              echo "==> There was an error downloading the binary file. Switching to incremental download."
-              echo "==> Downloading file..."
-              binaryIncrementalDownload ${BINARY_FILE} ${URL}
-	  else
-	      echo "==> Done."
-          fi
-      fi
-}
-
-binariesInstall() {
-  echo "===> Downloading version ${FABRIC_TAG} platform specific fabric binaries"
-  binaryDownload ${BINARY_FILE} https://nexus.hyperledger.org/content/repositories/releases/org/hyperledger/fabric/hyperledger-fabric/${ARCH}-${VERSION}/${BINARY_FILE}
-  if [ $? -eq 22 ]; then
-     echo
-     echo "------> ${FABRIC_TAG} platform specific fabric binary is not available to download <----"
-     echo
-   fi
-
-  echo "===> Downloading version ${CA_TAG} platform specific fabric-ca-client binary"
-  binaryDownload ${CA_BINARY_FILE} https://nexus.hyperledger.org/content/repositories/releases/org/hyperledger/fabric-ca/hyperledger-fabric-ca/${ARCH}-${CA_VERSION}/${CA_BINARY_FILE}
-  if [ $? -eq 22 ]; then
-     echo
-     echo "------> ${CA_TAG} fabric-ca-client binary is not available to download  (Available from 1.1.0-rc1) <----"
-     echo
-   fi
-}
-
-dockerInstall() {
-  which docker >& /dev/null
-  NODOCKER=$?
-  if [ "${NODOCKER}" == 0 ]; then
-	  echo "===> Pulling fabric Images"
-	  dockerFabricPull ${FABRIC_TAG}
-	  echo "===> Pulling fabric ca Image"
-	  dockerCaPull ${CA_TAG}
-	  echo "===> Pulling thirdparty docker images"
-	  dockerThirdPartyImagesPull ${THIRDPARTY_TAG}
-	  echo
-	  echo "===> List out hyperledger docker images"
-	  docker images | grep hyperledger*
-  else
-    echo "========================================================="
-    echo "Docker not installed, bypassing download of Fabric images"
-    echo "========================================================="
-  fi
-}
-
-DOCKER=true
-SAMPLES=true
-BINARIES=true
-
-# Parse commandline args pull out
-# version and/or ca-version strings first
-if echo $1 | grep -q '\d'; then
-  VERSION=$1;shift
-  if echo $1 | grep -q '\d'; then
-    CA_VERSION=$1;shift
-    if echo $1 | grep -q '\d'; then
-      THIRDPARTY_IMAGE_VERSION=$1;shift
-    fi
-  fi
-fi
-
-# prior to 1.1.0 architecture was determined by uname -m
-if [[ $VERSION =~ ^1\.[0]\.* ]]; then
-  export FABRIC_TAG=${MARCH}-${VERSION}
-  export CA_TAG=${MARCH}-${CA_VERSION}
-  export THIRDPARTY_TAG=${MARCH}-${THIRDPARTY_IMAGE_VERSION}
-else
-  # starting with 1.2.0, multi-arch images will be default
-  : ${CA_TAG:="$CA_VERSION"}
-  : ${FABRIC_TAG:="$VERSION"}
-  : ${THIRDPARTY_TAG:="$THIRDPARTY_IMAGE_VERSION"}
-fi
-
-BINARY_FILE=hyperledger-fabric-${ARCH}-${VERSION}.tar.gz
-CA_BINARY_FILE=hyperledger-fabric-ca-${ARCH}-${CA_VERSION}.tar.gz
-
-# then parse opts
-while getopts "h?db" opt; do
-  case "$opt" in
-    h|\?)
-      printHelp
-      exit 0
-    ;;
-    d)  DOCKER=false
-    ;;
-    b)  BINARIES=false
-    ;;
-  esac
-done
-
-if [ "$BINARIES" == "true" ]; then
-  echo
-  echo "Installing Hyperledger Fabric binaries"
-  echo
-  binariesInstall
-fi
-if [ "$DOCKER" == "true" ]; then
-  echo
-  echo "Installing Hyperledger Fabric docker images"
-  echo
-  dockerInstall
-fi