How to show images in single.php without showing in index.php

I am working on a CMS page for my WordPress theme. I would like to know how I pull the first 5 posts from my blog to show on my front page. I would like to hide the images on the front page so post images show in single.php only, I would like index.php to display title excerpt date etc. I think this should be a pretty simple task for somebody familiar with the code.